puffer
French, verb/py.fe/
puffer is spelled P-U-F-F-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written French, the 253,038th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puffer is a French verb meaning “to advertise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vanter avec démesure ou excès ; promouvoir avec insistance ou exagération”.
What does puffer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to advertise
- 2
informalslangto inhale vapor from an e-cigarette
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vanter avec démesure ou excès ; promouvoir avec insistance ou exagération.
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 puffer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- puffant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- puffé participle past
- puffe first-person indicative present
- puffes indicative present second-person
- puffons first-person indicative plural
- puffez indicative plural present
- puffent indicative plural present
- puffais first-person imperfect indicative
- puffait imperfect indicative singular
- puffions first-person imperfect indicative
- puffiez imperfect indicative plural
- puffaient imperfect indicative plural
- puffai first-person historic indicative
- puffas historic indicative past
- puffa historic indicative past
- puffâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce puffer?
- /py.fe/
- \py.fe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is puffer in French?
puffer appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).