disparaître
French, verb
disparaître is spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-A-Î-T-R-E (11 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,526th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disparaître is a French verb meaning “to disappear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, disparaitre is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of disparaître”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cesser de paraître ; ne plus être visible”.
What does disparaître mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disappear
- 2
to despawn
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of disparaître
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cesser de paraitre, ne plus être visible. Le participe passé est disparu, l’auxiliaire avoir et (rare/littéraire) être (pour indiquer l’état). 2. Ne plus être, ne plus exister. 3. Partir. 4. Devenir introuvable.
verb: 1. Cesser de paraître ; ne plus être visible. 2. Ne plus être ; ne plus exister. 3. Partir. 4. Devenir introuvable.
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 disparaître
- avoir infinitive multiword-construction
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- disparaissant gerund participle present
- ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- disparu participle past
- disparais first-person indicative present
- disparaît indicative present singular
- disparaissons first-person indicative plural
- disparaissez indicative plural present
- disparaissent indicative plural present
- disparaissais first-person imperfect indicative
- disparaissait imperfect indicative singular
- disparaissions first-person imperfect indicative
- disparaissiez imperfect indicative plural
- disparaissaient imperfect indicative plural
- disparus first-person historic indicative
- disparut historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to disparaître
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disparaître in French?
disparaître appears 22 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).