dévisager
French, verb/de.vi.za.ʒe/
dévisager is spelled D-É-V-I-S-A-G-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 64,346th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévisager is a French verb meaning “to peer at (someone's face), stare at (the face of)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Regarder quelqu’un avec une attention curieuse et impertinente”.
What does dévisager mean in English?
verb
- 1
to peer at (someone's face), stare at (the face of)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Regarder quelqu’un avec une attention curieuse et impertinente.
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 dévisager
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dévisageant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévisagé participle past
- dévisage first-person indicative present
- dévisages indicative present second-person
- dévisageons first-person indicative plural
- dévisagez indicative plural present
- dévisagent indicative plural present
- dévisageais first-person imperfect indicative
- dévisageait imperfect indicative singular
- dévisagions first-person imperfect indicative
- dévisagiez imperfect indicative plural
- dévisageaient imperfect indicative plural
- dévisageai first-person historic indicative
- dévisageas historic indicative past
- dévisagea historic indicative past
- dévisageâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévisager?
- /de.vi.za.ʒe/
- \de.vi.za.ʒe\
- [de.vi.za.ʒe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dévisager in French?
dévisager appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).