approche
French, noun
approche is spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-E (8 letters) and appears 60 times per million words in written French, the 1,396th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Approche is a French feminine noun meaning “approach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of approcher. With an accent, approché is a different word: “past participle of approcher”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de s’approcher”.
What does approche mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineapproach
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of approcher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de s’approcher. 2. L’abord, l’accès d’une place, d’un camp, etc. 3. Action d’approcher une chose d’une autre. 4. Distance, du blanc qui se trouve sur chaque côté d’une lettre ou de l’œil d’un caractère, créant l’interlettrage, l’espace entre les œils de caractères, lorsqu’ils sont mis les uns à côté des autres.
adjective: 1. Qualifie une valeur ou une connaissance qui est approximative.
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 approche
- approches plural
- approchée feminine
- approchés masculine plural
- approchées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to approche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is approche in French?
approche appears 60 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).