relancer
French, verb/ʁə.lɑ̃.se/
relancer is spelled R-E-L-A-N-C-E-R (8 letters) and appears 7.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,951st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Relancer is a French verb meaning “to throw back” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lancer de nouveau”.
What does relancer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to throw back
- 2
to relaunch
- 3
to boost, to revive (economically)
- 4
to reboot (a computer)
- 5
to restart (an initiative, project, or engine)
- 6
to follow up, to recontact someone about a message previously sent (e.g. if there was no reply)
Relancer un client.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lancer de nouveau. 2. Envoyer à son tour une chose qu’on vous a lancée. 3. Lancer de nouveau une bête, la faire partir du lieu où elle se repose. 4. Aller trouver quelqu’un au lieu où il est, lui écrire, pour l’engager à quelque chose à quoi il ne songeait plus ou qu’il n’avait pas envie de faire.
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 relancer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- relançant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- relancé participle past
- relance first-person indicative present
- relances indicative present second-person
- relançons first-person indicative plural
- relancez indicative plural present
- relancent indicative plural present
- relançais first-person imperfect indicative
- relançait imperfect indicative singular
- relancions first-person imperfect indicative
- relanciez imperfect indicative plural
- relançaient imperfect indicative plural
- relançai first-person historic indicative
- relanças historic indicative past
- relança historic indicative past
- relançâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce relancer?
- /ʁə.lɑ̃.se/
- \ʁə.lɑ̃.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to relancer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is relancer in French?
relancer appears 7.9 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).