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bûcheron

French, noun

bûcheron is spelled B-Û-C-H-E-R-O-N (8 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bûcheron is a French masculine noun meaning “woodman, lumberjack, logger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, bucheron is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of bûcheron”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne dont le métier est de couper du bois dans une forêt”.

What does bûcheron mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinewoodman, lumberjack, logger

  2. 2

    masculinewoodcutter

noun

as bucheron
  1. 1

    masculinepost-1990 spelling of bûcheron

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est propre aux bûcheronnes et aux bûcherons.

noun: 1. Personne dont le métier est de couper du bois dans une forêt. 2. Meuble représentant le métier du même nom dans les armoiries. La hache est l’attribut distinctif du bûcheron, elle est donc généralement présente et souvent d’un émail particulier. À rapprocher de batteur en grange, faucheur, forgeron, meunier et vigneron.

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de bûcheron.

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 bûcheron

  • bûcherons plural
  • bûcheronne feminine
  • bucheron alternative
  • bucherons plural
  • bucheronne feminine
  • bûcheronnes plural feminine

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to bûcheron

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is bûcheron in French?

bûcheron appears 1.0 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).

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