ulcérer
French, verb/yl.se.ʁe/
ulcérer is spelled U-L-C-É-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ulcérer is a French verb meaning “to ulcerate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire, causer un ulcère”.
What does ulcérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ulcerate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire, causer un ulcère. 2. Blesser profondément, faire naître un ressentiment durable dans le cœur de quelqu’un. 3. Développer un ulcère, en parlant d’un organe ou d’un tissu.
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 ulcérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ulcérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ulcéré participle past
- ulcère first-person indicative present
- ulcères indicative present second-person
- ulcérons first-person indicative plural
- ulcérez indicative plural present
- ulcèrent indicative plural present
- ulcérais first-person imperfect indicative
- ulcérait imperfect indicative singular
- ulcérions first-person imperfect indicative
- ulcériez imperfect indicative plural
- ulcéraient imperfect indicative plural
- ulcérai first-person historic indicative
- ulcéras historic indicative past
- ulcéra historic indicative past
- ulcérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ulcérer?
- /yl.se.ʁe/
- \yl.se.ʁe\
- [yl̪.se.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ulcérer in French?
ulcérer appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).