tresser
French, verb/tʁɛ.se/
tresser is spelled T-R-E-S-S-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 64,346th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tresser is a French verb meaning “to plait, braid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre, arranger en tresses”.
What does tresser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plait, braid
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre, arranger en tresses.
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 tresser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tressant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tressé participle past
- tresse first-person indicative present
- tresses indicative present second-person
- tressons first-person indicative plural
- tressez indicative plural present
- tressent indicative plural present
- tressais first-person imperfect indicative
- tressait imperfect indicative singular
- tressions first-person imperfect indicative
- tressiez imperfect indicative plural
- tressaient imperfect indicative plural
- tressai first-person historic indicative
- tressas historic indicative past
- tressa historic indicative past
- tressâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tresser?
- /tʁɛ.se/
- /tʁe.se/
- \tʁe.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 tresser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tresser in French?
tresser appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).