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vacher

/væˈʃeɪ/obsolete

vacher is a noun meaning “A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-H-E-R, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vacher is vachers.

What does vacher mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USobsoleteA keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce vacher?

  • /væˈʃeɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vacher?

Vacher appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does vacher come from?

From French vacher (“cowherd”). Doublet of vaquero.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).