gercer
French, verb/ʒɛʁ.se/
gercer is spelled G-E-R-C-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gercer is a French verb meaning “to chap, become chapped” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fendiller, en parlant de l’action du froid ou de la sécheresse”.
What does gercer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chap, become chapped
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fendiller, en parlant de l’action du froid ou de la sécheresse.
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 gercer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gerçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gercé participle past
- gerce first-person indicative present
- gerces indicative present second-person
- gerçons first-person indicative plural
- gercez indicative plural present
- gercent indicative plural present
- gerçais first-person imperfect indicative
- gerçait imperfect indicative singular
- gercions first-person imperfect indicative
- gerciez imperfect indicative plural
- gerçaient imperfect indicative plural
- gerçai first-person historic indicative
- gerças historic indicative past
- gerça historic indicative past
- gerçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gercer?
- /ʒɛʁ.se/
- \ʒɛʁ.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gercer in French?
gercer appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).