blesser
French, verb/blɛ.se/
blesser is spelled B-L-E-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blesser is a French verb meaning “to wound, to injure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper d’un coup qui fait une contusion, une plaie, une fracture”.
What does blesser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wound, to injure
Il a été blessé par un coup de poignard au niveau des muscles abdominaux.
- 2
to hurt one's feelings, to offend
- 3
to injure oneself
Je me suis blessé le pied droit.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper d’un coup qui fait une contusion, une plaie, une fracture. 2. Occasionner, par choc, pression ou frottement, quelque plaie ou contusion. 3. Causer seulement quelque gêne, quelque douleur. 4. Causer une impression désagréable à la vue, à l’ouïe.
verb: 1. Se faire du mal à soi-même par accident, par mégarde ou à dessein. 2. Faire une fausse couche. 3. S’offenser de quelque chose.
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 blesser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- blessant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- blessé participle past
- blesse first-person indicative present
- blesses indicative present second-person
- blessons first-person indicative plural
- blessez indicative plural present
- blessent indicative plural present
- blessais first-person imperfect indicative
- blessait imperfect indicative singular
- blessions first-person imperfect indicative
- blessiez imperfect indicative plural
- blessaient imperfect indicative plural
- blessai first-person historic indicative
- blessas historic indicative past
- blessa historic indicative past
- blessâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blesser?
- /blɛ.se/
- /ble.se/
- \blɛ.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 blesser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blesser in French?
blesser appears 8.3 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).