gaufrer
French, verb/ɡo.fʁe/
gaufrer is spelled G-A-U-F-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 87 million words in written French, the 291,657th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gaufrer is a French verb meaning “to emboss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Imprimer des figures sur des étoffes, sur du cuir, sur du papier, au moyen de fers chauds ou de cylindres…”.
What does gaufrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to emboss
- 2
to goffer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Imprimer des figures sur des étoffes, sur du cuir, sur du papier, au moyen de fers chauds ou de cylindres gravés. 2. Donner aux pétales de fleurs artificielles la forme naturelle par les opérations de gaufrage. 3. Tomber. 4. Se tromper.
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 gaufrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gaufrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gaufré participle past
- gaufre first-person indicative present
- gaufres indicative present second-person
- gaufrons first-person indicative plural
- gaufrez indicative plural present
- gaufrent indicative plural present
- gaufrais first-person imperfect indicative
- gaufrait imperfect indicative singular
- gaufrions first-person imperfect indicative
- gaufriez imperfect indicative plural
- gaufraient imperfect indicative plural
- gaufrai first-person historic indicative
- gaufras historic indicative past
- gaufra historic indicative past
- gaufrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gaufrer?
- /ɡo.fʁe/
- \ɡo.fʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gaufrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gaufrer in French?
gaufrer appears about once in every 87 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).