fraiser
French, verb/fʁɛ.ze/
fraiser is spelled F-R-A-I-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 110,748th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fraiser is a French verb meaning “to sheer (with a cutting tool)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Évaser circulairement l’entrée d’un trou déjà percé”.
What does fraiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sheer (with a cutting tool)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Évaser circulairement l’entrée d’un trou déjà percé. 2. Façonner du bois ou du métal à l'aide d'une fraise. 3. Pétrir la pâte de façon à l’imbiber d’une seconde quantité d’eau. 4. Pétrir la pâte à la main pour la rendre lisse.
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 fraiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fraisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fraisé participle past
- fraise first-person indicative present
- fraises indicative present second-person
- fraisons first-person indicative plural
- fraisez indicative plural present
- fraisent indicative plural present
- fraisais first-person imperfect indicative
- fraisait imperfect indicative singular
- fraisions first-person imperfect indicative
- fraisiez imperfect indicative plural
- fraisaient imperfect indicative plural
- fraisai first-person historic indicative
- fraisas historic indicative past
- fraisa historic indicative past
- fraisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fraiser?
- /fʁɛ.ze/
- /fʁe.ze/
- \fʁe.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fraiser in French?
fraiser appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).