bouche
French, noun
bouche is spelled B-O-U-C-H-E (6 letters) and appears 62 times per million words in written French, the 1,363rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouche is a French feminine noun meaning “mouth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of boucher. With an accent, bouché is a different word: “stuffy, stuffed up, blocked up, clogged up”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Organe de l'être humain, composé de deux lèvres horizontales situées au bas du visage, lui servant notamment…”.
What does bouche mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemouth
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
informalstuffy, stuffed up, blocked up, clogged up
- 2
informalthick, dumb
verb
- 1
past participle of boucher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Organe de l'être humain, composé de deux lèvres horizontales situées au bas du visage, lui servant notamment à ingurgiter de la nourriture et de la boisson, à parler, à embrasser et à faire des expressions faciales. 2. Étape dans l’analyse sensorielle et la dégustation du vin. 3. Personne, par allusion à la nourriture qu’elle consomme. 4. Nourriture.
adjective: 1. Qui a subi un bouchage. 2. De peu d’intelligence, ne pouvant comprendre les choses les plus simples. 3. Sourd. 4. Constipé.
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 bouche
- bouches plural
- bouchée feminine
- bouchés masculine plural
- bouchées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bouche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bouche in French?
bouche appears 62 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).