pucer
French, verb/py.se/
pucer is spelled P-U-C-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pucer is a French verb meaning “to chip (insert a chip under the skin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insérer une puce électronique dans (une console de jeu) pour changer ses caractéristiques”.
What does pucer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chip (insert a chip under the skin)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Insérer une puce électronique dans (une console de jeu) pour changer ses caractéristiques. 2. Équiper (un animal) d’une puce électronique.
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 pucer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- puçant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pucé participle past
- puce first-person indicative present
- puces indicative present second-person
- puçons first-person indicative plural
- pucez indicative plural present
- pucent indicative plural present
- puçais first-person imperfect indicative
- puçait imperfect indicative singular
- pucions first-person imperfect indicative
- puciez imperfect indicative plural
- puçaient imperfect indicative plural
- puçai first-person historic indicative
- puças historic indicative past
- puça historic indicative past
- puçâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pucer?
- /py.se/
- \py.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pucer in French?
pucer appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).