jerker
French, verb/dʒɛʁ.ke/
jerker is spelled J-E-R-K-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written French, the 282,260th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Jerker is a French verb meaning “to dance the jerk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Danser le jerk”.
What does jerker mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dance the jerk
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Danser le jerk.
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 jerker
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- jerkant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jerké participle past
- jerke first-person indicative present
- jerkes indicative present second-person
- jerkons first-person indicative plural
- jerkez indicative plural present
- jerkent indicative plural present
- jerkais first-person imperfect indicative
- jerkait imperfect indicative singular
- jerkions first-person imperfect indicative
- jerkiez imperfect indicative plural
- jerkaient imperfect indicative plural
- jerkai first-person historic indicative
- jerkas historic indicative past
- jerka historic indicative past
- jerkâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce jerker?
- /dʒɛʁ.ke/
- /ʒɛʁ.ke/
- \dʒɛʁ.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is jerker in French?
jerker appears about once in every 81 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).