dévider
French, verb/de.vi.de/
dévider is spelled D-É-V-I-D-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévider is a French verb meaning “to put (string) into a ball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre en écheveau le fil qui est sur le fuseau”.
What does dévider mean in English?
verb
- 1
to put (string) into a ball
- 2
to unwind, spool, reel
- 3
to recount, to reel off (a story)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre en écheveau le fil qui est sur le fuseau. 2. Mettre en peloton le fil qui est en écheveau ou en bobines. 3. Dérouler le fil enroulé sur une bobine. 4. Dérouler en esprit.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dévider
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dévidant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévidé participle past
- dévide first-person indicative present
- dévides indicative present second-person
- dévidons first-person indicative plural
- dévidez indicative plural present
- dévident indicative plural present
- dévidais first-person imperfect indicative
- dévidait imperfect indicative singular
- dévidions first-person imperfect indicative
- dévidiez imperfect indicative plural
- dévidaient imperfect indicative plural
- dévidai first-person historic indicative
- dévidas historic indicative past
- dévida historic indicative past
- dévidâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévider?
- /de.vi.de/
- \de.vi.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dévider in French?
dévider appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).