lofer
French, verb/lɔ.fe/
lofer is spelled L-O-F-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lofer is a French verb meaning “to luff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Modifier l’axe du bateau (voilier) pour le rapprocher du lit du vent”.
What does lofer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to luff
- 2
to luff up, bear up
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Modifier l’axe du bateau (voilier) pour le rapprocher du lit du vent.
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 lofer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lofant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lofé participle past
- lofe first-person indicative present
- lofes indicative present second-person
- lofons first-person indicative plural
- lofez indicative plural present
- lofent indicative plural present
- lofais first-person imperfect indicative
- lofait imperfect indicative singular
- lofions first-person imperfect indicative
- lofiez imperfect indicative plural
- lofaient imperfect indicative plural
- lofai first-person historic indicative
- lofas historic indicative past
- lofa historic indicative past
- lofâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lofer?
- /lɔ.fe/
- \lɔ.fe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lofer in French?
lofer appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).