arracher
French, verb/a.ʁa.ʃe/
arracher is spelled A-R-R-A-C-H-E-R (8 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arracher is a French verb meaning “to uproot, pull up, tear out” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Détacher avec effort ; ôter de force”.
What does arracher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to uproot, pull up, tear out
- 2
to extract, take out (a tooth)
- 3
to pull off, rip off, peel
Il arrache les pattes du moustique.
- 4
to buy, snap up
On l'a arraché pour 10.000 dollars.
- 5
to fight over (something)
- 6
slangto scram; to get out
- 7
to tear away; to tear apart
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détacher avec effort ; ôter de force. 2. Détacher ou enlever une récolte du sol. 3. En parlant d’un avare de qui on a tiré de l’argent. 4. Marque l’extrême répugnance d’une personne à faire quelque chose et combien il serait difficile de l’y contraindre.
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 arracher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- arrachant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- arraché participle past
- arrache first-person indicative present
- arraches indicative present second-person
- arrachons first-person indicative plural
- arrachez indicative plural present
- arrachent indicative plural present
- arrachais first-person imperfect indicative
- arrachait imperfect indicative singular
- arrachions first-person imperfect indicative
- arrachiez imperfect indicative plural
- arrachaient imperfect indicative plural
- arrachai first-person historic indicative
- arrachas historic indicative past
- arracha historic indicative past
- arrachâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arracher?
- /a.ʁa.ʃe/
- \a.ʁa.ʃe\
- [a.ʁa.ʃe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arracher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arracher in French?
arracher appears 10 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).