dévisser
French, verb/de.vi.se/
dévisser is spelled D-É-V-I-S-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,168th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dévisser is a French verb meaning “to unscrew, undo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dégager une chose des vis qui servaient à la retenir, à la fixer”.
What does dévisser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to unscrew, undo
- 2
to remove (the lid from a container)
- 3
to lose one's grip and fall
- 4
to drop sharply, to plunge, to plummet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dégager une chose des vis qui servaient à la retenir, à la fixer. 2. Enlever ce qui est vissé. 3. Chuter d’une paroi rocheuse ou glaciaire, sans être retenu par une corde. 4. Diminuer brutalement, connaître une forte et soudaine chute.
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 dévisser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dévissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dévissé participle past
- dévisse first-person indicative present
- dévisses indicative present second-person
- dévissons first-person indicative plural
- dévissez indicative plural present
- dévissent indicative plural present
- dévissais first-person imperfect indicative
- dévissait imperfect indicative singular
- dévissions first-person imperfect indicative
- dévissiez imperfect indicative plural
- dévissaient imperfect indicative plural
- dévissai first-person historic indicative
- dévissas historic indicative past
- dévissa historic indicative past
- dévissâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dévisser?
- /de.vi.se/
- \de.vi.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dévisser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dévisser in French?
dévisser appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).