bûcher
French, noun
bûcher is spelled B-Û-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bûcher is a French masculine noun meaning “woodshed (enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, bucher is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of bûcher”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tas de bois que l’on brûle pour se chauffer”.
What does bûcher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewoodshed (enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood)
- 2
masculinepyre (funeral pile; combustible heap on which corpses are burned)
- 3
masculinestake (pile of wood on which a person condemned to death is burned)
- 4
masculinethe flames of Hell
verb
- 1
to hew
- 2
informalto slug away, to hit the books
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of bûcher
verb
- 1
post-1990 spelling of bûcher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de bûcher.
verb: 1. Variante orthographique de bûcher.
noun: 1. Tas de bois que l’on brûle pour se chauffer. 2. Lieu où l’on range le bois à brûler. 3. Amas de bois sur lequel on mettait anciennement les cadavres pour les brûler. 4. Amas de bois sur lequel on plaçait ceux qui avaient été condamnés au supplice du feu.
verb: 1. Travailler à faire des bûches. Dégrossir à coups de hache. 2. Battre, rosser. 3. Enlever à un bloc ou une surface de pierre ce qui fait saillie. 4. Détruire une pièce qu’on veut remplacer par une meilleure.
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 bûcher
- bûchers plural
- bucher alternative
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bûchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bûché participle past
- bûche first-person indicative present
- bûches indicative present second-person
- bûchons first-person indicative plural
- bûchez indicative plural present
- bûchent indicative plural present
- bûchais first-person imperfect indicative
- bûchait imperfect indicative singular
- bûchions first-person imperfect indicative
- bûchiez imperfect indicative plural
- bûchaient imperfect indicative plural
- bûchai first-person historic indicative
- bûchas historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bûcher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bûcher in French?
bûcher appears 2.4 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).