écumer
French, verb/e.ky.me/
écumer is spelled É-C-U-M-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 67,389th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Écumer is a French verb meaning “to foam, foam up, froth, froth up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se couvrir d’écume”.
What does écumer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to foam, foam up, froth, froth up
- 2
to lather (as of a horse)
- 3
to unfoam, remove foam from
- 4
to take the scum off
- 5
to skim
- 6
to scour (shops, etc., looking for something)
- 7
to grift (to skim off profits etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se couvrir d’écume. 2. Manifester vivement sa colère. 3. Débarrasser de l’écume. 4. Faire le métier de pirate.
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 écumer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- écumant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- écumé participle past
- écume first-person indicative present
- écumes indicative present second-person
- écumons first-person indicative plural
- écumez indicative plural present
- écument indicative plural present
- écumais first-person imperfect indicative
- écumait imperfect indicative singular
- écumions first-person imperfect indicative
- écumiez imperfect indicative plural
- écumaient imperfect indicative plural
- écumai first-person historic indicative
- écumas historic indicative past
- écuma historic indicative past
- écumâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce écumer?
- /e.ky.me/
- \e.ky.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to écumer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is écumer in French?
écumer appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).