lancer
French, noun/lɑ̃.se/
lancer is spelled L-A-N-C-E-R (6 letters) and appears 48 times per million words in written French, the 1,739th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lancer is a French masculine noun meaning “a throw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de jeter”.
What does lancer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to throw
- 2
to start, to launch
- 3
to call out, yell
noun
- 1
masculinea throw
- 2
masculinea pitch
- 3
masculinea shot
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jeter en avant avec force, avec raideur, pour atteindre au loin. 2. Jeter en hauteur, en l’air, avec force. 3. Jeter. 4. Diffuser une première fois.
noun: 1. Action de jeter. 2. Moment où l’on contraint la bête chassée à sortir de sa retraite. 3. Technique de pêche à la ligne.
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 lancer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lançant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lancé participle past
- lance first-person indicative present
- lances indicative present second-person
- lançons first-person indicative plural
- lancez indicative plural present
- lancent indicative plural present
- lançais first-person imperfect indicative
- lançait imperfect indicative singular
- lancions first-person imperfect indicative
- lanciez imperfect indicative plural
- lançaient imperfect indicative plural
- lançai first-person historic indicative
- lanças historic indicative past
- lança historic indicative past
- lançâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lancer?
- /lɑ̃.se/
- \lɑ̃.se\
- [lɑ̃.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lancer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lancer in French?
lancer appears 48 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).