bâcher
French, verb/ba.ʃe/
bâcher is spelled B-Â-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bâcher is a French verb meaning “to cover with a canvas or tarpaulin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvrir d’une bâche”.
What does bâcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cover with a canvas or tarpaulin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couvrir d’une bâche. 2. Se couvrir (d’un vêtement ou de toute autre chose). 3. Se couvrir, en parlant du temps, du ciel, notamment dans le contexte des sports d’altitude (aviation de loisir, alpinisme et autre sports de haute montagne). 4. (Pronominal ou non pronominal) Se mettre sous la bâche (drap du lit), aller dormir.
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 bâcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bâchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bâché participle past
- bâche first-person indicative present
- bâches indicative present second-person
- bâchons first-person indicative plural
- bâchez indicative plural present
- bâchent indicative plural present
- bâchais first-person imperfect indicative
- bâchait imperfect indicative singular
- bâchions first-person imperfect indicative
- bâchiez imperfect indicative plural
- bâchaient imperfect indicative plural
- bâchai first-person historic indicative
- bâchas historic indicative past
- bâcha historic indicative past
- bâchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bâcher?
- /ba.ʃe/
- /bɑ.ʃe/
- \bɑ.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bâcher in French?
bâcher appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).