pulser
French, verb/pyl.se/
pulser is spelled P-U-L-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pulser is a French verb meaning “to pulse (heart and/or arteries)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire des pulsations, en parlant du cœur, des artères”.
What does pulser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pulse (heart and/or arteries)
- 2
to pulse, to throb (organs, a sensation of pain, or a strong emotion)
- 3
to pulse or pulsate (lighting)
- 4
to pulse (hot air) by ventilation
pulser de l'air chaud
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire des pulsations, en parlant du cœur, des artères. 2. Être animé de pulsations, d’afflux répétés et violents, en parlant d’un organe, d’une sensation de douleur ou d’une forte émotion. 3. Changer de luminosité et / ou de couleur par cycles plus ou moins rapides, en parlant de lumière. 4. Changer de luminosité, en parlant d’une étoile variable.
verb: 1. Envoyer (de l’air chaud) par ventilation (surtout employé comme participe passé adjectivé : « air pulsé »).
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 pulser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pulsant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pulsé participle past
- pulse first-person indicative present
- pulses indicative present second-person
- pulsons first-person indicative plural
- pulsez indicative plural present
- pulsent indicative plural present
- pulsais first-person imperfect indicative
- pulsait imperfect indicative singular
- pulsions first-person imperfect indicative
- pulsiez imperfect indicative plural
- pulsaient imperfect indicative plural
- pulsai first-person historic indicative
- pulsas historic indicative past
- pulsa historic indicative past
- pulsâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pulser?
- /pyl.se/
- \pyl.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pulser in French?
pulser appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).