agacer
French, verb/a.ɡa.se/
agacer is spelled A-G-A-C-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 30,103rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Agacer is a French verb meaning “to irritate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Affecter d’une irritation nerveuse”.
What does agacer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to irritate
- 2
to tease
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Affecter d’une irritation nerveuse. 2. Provoquer une irritation, contrarier, voire causer de l’impatience. 3. Chercher à plaire, aguicher.
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 agacer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- agaçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- agacé participle past
- agace first-person indicative present
- agaces indicative present second-person
- agaçons first-person indicative plural
- agacez indicative plural present
- agacent indicative plural present
- agaçais first-person imperfect indicative
- agaçait imperfect indicative singular
- agacions first-person imperfect indicative
- agaciez imperfect indicative plural
- agaçaient imperfect indicative plural
- agaçai first-person historic indicative
- agaças historic indicative past
- agaça historic indicative past
- agaçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce agacer?
- /a.ɡa.se/
- \a.ɡa.se\
- [a.ɡa.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 agacer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is agacer in French?
agacer appears 1.1 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).