user
French, verb/y.ze/
user is spelled U-S-E-R (4 letters) and appears 7.2 times per million words in written French, the 8,517th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). User is a French verb meaning “to wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, grind down, run in” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Détériorer par l’usage”.
What does user mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, grind down, run in
Trois kilomètres à pied, ça use les souliers.
- 2
to use (used with de)
Ne m'obligez pas à user de la force.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détériorer par l’usage. 2. Consommer, utiliser, se servir de quelque chose. 3. Diminuer par le frottement. 4. Amoindrir, affaiblir.
noun: 1. Usage, utilisation. 2. Fréquentation.
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 user
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- usant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- usé participle past
- use first-person indicative present
- uses indicative present second-person
- usons first-person indicative plural
- usez indicative plural present
- usent indicative plural present
- usais first-person imperfect indicative
- usait imperfect indicative singular
- usions first-person imperfect indicative
- usiez imperfect indicative plural
- usaient imperfect indicative plural
- usai first-person historic indicative
- usas historic indicative past
- usa historic indicative past
- usâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce user?
- /y.ze/
- \y.ze\
- [y.ze]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to user
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is user in French?
user appears 7.2 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).