ruser
French, verb/ʁy.ze/
ruser is spelled R-U-S-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ruser is a French verb meaning “to use one's cunning, to be crafty, to beguile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se servir de ruses”.
What does ruser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to use one's cunning, to be crafty, to beguile
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se servir de ruses. 2. Se servir de toutes sortes de détours pour se dérober aux chiens qui poursuivent, en parlant du gibier, et particulièrement du cerf, du lièvre, du renard, etc. 3. Traîner, frotter, glisser en faisant du bruit.
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 ruser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rusant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rusé participle past
- ruse first-person indicative present
- ruses indicative present second-person
- rusons first-person indicative plural
- rusez indicative plural present
- rusent indicative plural present
- rusais first-person imperfect indicative
- rusait imperfect indicative singular
- rusions first-person imperfect indicative
- rusiez imperfect indicative plural
- rusaient imperfect indicative plural
- rusai first-person historic indicative
- rusas historic indicative past
- rusa historic indicative past
- rusâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ruser?
- /ʁy.ze/
- \ʁy.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ruser in French?
ruser appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).