bêcher
French, verb
bêcher is spelled B-Ê-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). Bêcher is a French verb meaning “to dig (with a spade)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bécher is a different word: “beaker (flat-bottomed vessel)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travailler la terre avec une bêche”.
What does bêcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dig (with a spade)
- 2
datedto badmouth, to slander
noun
- 1
masculinebeaker (flat-bottomed vessel)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Travailler la terre avec une bêche. 2. Se dit en parlant d’un travail qu’on regarde comme très pénible ou très difficile, ou pour lequel on a une grande répugnance. 3. Dire du mal de quelque chose ou de quelqu’un, critiquer. 4. Avoir un comportement distant voire hautain avec quelqu’un.
noun: 1. Récipient cylindrique à fond plat, au bord haut légèrement évasé et muni d’un bec verseur, généralement en pyrex et gradué, il est utilisé par les scientifiques.
verb: 1. Prendre la becquée à plein bec.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de bécher.
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 bêcher
- béchers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bêchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bêché participle past
- bêche first-person indicative present
- bêches indicative present second-person
- bêchons first-person indicative plural
- bêchez indicative plural present
- bêchent indicative plural present
- bêchais first-person imperfect indicative
- bêchait imperfect indicative singular
- bêchions first-person imperfect indicative
- bêchiez imperfect indicative plural
- bêchaient imperfect indicative plural
- bêchai first-person historic indicative
- bêchas historic indicative past
- bêcha historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bêcher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bêcher in French?
bêcher 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).