ganser
French, verb/ɡɑ̃.se/
ganser is spelled G-A-N-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written French, the 207,469th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ganser is a French verb meaning “to border (decorate with a border)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre une ganse, un biais sur le bord d’une étoffe”.
What does ganser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to border (decorate with a border)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre une ganse, un biais sur le bord d’une étoffe. 2. Border.
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 ganser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gansant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gansé participle past
- ganse first-person indicative present
- ganses indicative present second-person
- gansons first-person indicative plural
- gansez indicative plural present
- gansent indicative plural present
- gansais first-person imperfect indicative
- gansait imperfect indicative singular
- gansions first-person imperfect indicative
- gansiez imperfect indicative plural
- gansaient imperfect indicative plural
- gansai first-person historic indicative
- gansas historic indicative past
- gansa historic indicative past
- gansâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ganser?
- /ɡɑ̃.se/
- \ɡɑ̃.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ganser in French?
ganser appears about once in every 43 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).