lamer
French, verb/la.me/
lamer is spelled L-A-M-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 121,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lamer is a French verb meaning “to flatten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aplanir avec une lame tournante”.
What does lamer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flatten
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aplanir avec une lame tournante.
noun: 1. Terme général de mépris envers une personne ne faisant pas réellement d'effort en technologie informatique ou usurpant le travail d'un autre.
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 lamer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lamant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lamé participle past
- lame first-person indicative present
- lames indicative present second-person
- lamons first-person indicative plural
- lamez indicative plural present
- lament indicative plural present
- lamais first-person imperfect indicative
- lamait imperfect indicative singular
- lamions first-person imperfect indicative
- lamiez imperfect indicative plural
- lamaient imperfect indicative plural
- lamai first-person historic indicative
- lamas historic indicative past
- lama historic indicative past
- lamâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lamer?
- /la.me/
- \la.me\
- \lej.mœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lamer in French?
lamer appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).