stresser
French, verb/stʁɛ.se/
stresser is spelled S-T-R-E-S-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,237th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Stresser is a French verb meaning “to stress (cause stress to)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Causer du stress à quelqu’un”.
What does stresser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stress (cause stress to)
- 2
to become stressed, to stress out
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Causer du stress à quelqu’un. 2. Être tendu, stressé.
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 stresser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- stressant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- stressé participle past
- stresse first-person indicative present
- stresses indicative present second-person
- stressons first-person indicative plural
- stressez indicative plural present
- stressent indicative plural present
- stressais first-person imperfect indicative
- stressait imperfect indicative singular
- stressions first-person imperfect indicative
- stressiez imperfect indicative plural
- stressaient imperfect indicative plural
- stressai first-person historic indicative
- stressas historic indicative past
- stressa historic indicative past
- stressâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce stresser?
- /stʁɛ.se/
- /stʁe.se/
- \stʁe.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 stresser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stresser in French?
stresser appears 1.4 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).