laser
French, noun/la.zɛʁ/
laser is spelled L-A-S-E-R (5 letters) and appears 8.3 times per million words in written French, the 7,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Laser is a French masculine noun meaning “laser (umbelliferous plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante de la famille des ombellifères”.
What does laser mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelaser (umbelliferous plant)
noun
- 1
masculinelaser
verb
- 1
to laser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante de la famille des ombellifères.
noun: 1. Source de lumière (ou de rayonnement de même nature : infrarouge, ultraviolet, etc.) exploitant le phénomène très spécifique démission stimulée, qui permet d'obtenir un faisceau aux propriétés particulières : directivité, cohérence (utile en interférométrie), monochromaticité, densité énergétique, etc. 2. Dispositif qui amplifie la lumière (et plus généralement tout rayonnement électromagnétique). 3. Ellipse de disque laser.
noun: 1. Dériveur monotype solitaire de série olympique.
adjective: 1. (Par apposition) Qui concerne le laser.
verb: 1. Se dit d’un dispositif ou d’une substance qui se met à émettre des rayons laser.
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 laser
- lasers plural
- avoir lasé infinitive past
- en lasant gerund present
- en ayant lasé gerund past
- lasant participle present
- lasé participle past
- je lase indicative present
- tu lases indicative present
- il/elle/on lase indicative present
- nous lasons indicative present
- vous lasez indicative present
- ils/elles lasent indicative present
- j’ai lasé indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as lasé indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a lasé indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons lasé indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez lasé indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont lasé indicative past multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce laser?
- /la.zɛʁ/
- \la.zɛʁ\
- [la.zɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to laser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is laser in French?
laser appears 8.3 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).