surfer
French, verb/sœʁ.fe/
surfer is spelled S-U-R-F-E-R (6 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Surfer is a French verb meaning “to surf (on a wave)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Glisser sur une vague déferlante, debout sur une planche spécialement conçue à cet usage”.
What does surfer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to surf (on a wave)
- 2
to surf (to browse the internet)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Glisser sur une vague déferlante, debout sur une planche spécialement conçue à cet usage. 2. Visiter des pages web via un navigateur. 3. Profiter d’une occasion.
noun: 1. Celui qui pratique le surf.
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 surfer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- surfant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- surfé participle past
- surfe first-person indicative present
- surfes indicative present second-person
- surfons first-person indicative plural
- surfez indicative plural present
- surfent indicative plural present
- surfais first-person imperfect indicative
- surfait imperfect indicative singular
- surfions first-person imperfect indicative
- surfiez imperfect indicative plural
- surfaient imperfect indicative plural
- surfai first-person historic indicative
- surfas historic indicative past
- surfa historic indicative past
- surfâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce surfer?
- /sœʁ.fe/
- \sœʁ.fe\
- [sœʁ.fe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to surfer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is surfer in French?
surfer appears 3.7 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).