laquer
French, verb/la.ke/
laquer is spelled L-A-Q-U-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written French, the 198,467th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Laquer is a French verb meaning “to lacquer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Recouvrir de laque ou d’une peinture brillante qui imite la laque”.
What does laquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lacquer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Recouvrir de laque ou d’une peinture brillante qui imite la laque.
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 laquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- laquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- laqué participle past
- laque first-person indicative present
- laques indicative present second-person
- laquons first-person indicative plural
- laquez indicative plural present
- laquent indicative plural present
- laquais first-person imperfect indicative
- laquait imperfect indicative singular
- laquions first-person imperfect indicative
- laquiez imperfect indicative plural
- laquaient imperfect indicative plural
- laquai first-person historic indicative
- laquas historic indicative past
- laqua historic indicative past
- laquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce laquer?
- /la.ke/
- \la.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to laquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is laquer in French?
laquer appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).