buser
French, verb/by.ze/
buser is spelled B-U-S-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written French, the 194,108th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buser is a French verb meaning “to fail (a test, exam)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Équiper d’une buse (canalisation) pour permettre l’écoulement de l’eau”.
What does buser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fail (a test, exam)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Équiper d’une buse (canalisation) pour permettre l’écoulement de l’eau.
verb: 1. Faire échouer un étudiant. 2. Échouer, être recalé.
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 buser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- busant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- busé participle past
- buse first-person indicative present
- buses indicative present second-person
- busons first-person indicative plural
- busez indicative plural present
- busent indicative plural present
- busais first-person imperfect indicative
- busait imperfect indicative singular
- busions first-person imperfect indicative
- busiez imperfect indicative plural
- busaient imperfect indicative plural
- busai first-person historic indicative
- busas historic indicative past
- busa historic indicative past
- busâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buser?
- /by.ze/
- \by.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buser in French?
buser appears about once in every 37 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).