gommer
French, verb/ɡɔ.me/
gommer is spelled G-O-M-M-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,445th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gommer is a French verb meaning “to gum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Effacer un écrit au moyen d’une gomme”.
What does gommer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gum
- 2
to erase, rub out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Effacer un écrit au moyen d’une gomme 2. Atténuer ; rendre moins apparent. 3. Enduire de gomme. 4. Enduire de gomme arabique.
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 gommer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gommant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gommé participle past
- gomme first-person indicative present
- gommes indicative present second-person
- gommons first-person indicative plural
- gommez indicative plural present
- gomment indicative plural present
- gommais first-person imperfect indicative
- gommait imperfect indicative singular
- gommions first-person imperfect indicative
- gommiez imperfect indicative plural
- gommaient imperfect indicative plural
- gommai first-person historic indicative
- gommas historic indicative past
- gomma historic indicative past
- gommâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gommer?
- /ɡɔ.me/
- \ɡɔ.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gommer in French?
gommer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).