cacher
French, verb/ka.ʃe/
cacher is spelled C-A-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 29 times per million words in written French, the 2,767th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cacher is a French verb meaning “to hide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre (une personne ou une chose) en un lieu où on ne peut pas la voir, la recouvrir”.
What does cacher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hide
Je n’ai rien à vous cacher.
- 2
to hide (oneself)
Personne ne savait qu'il était là, donc il a dû se cacher.
adjective
- 1
alternative spelling of casher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre (une personne ou une chose) en un lieu où on ne peut pas la voir, la recouvrir. 2. Couvrir une chose, empêcher qu’on ne la voie. 3. Mettre à l’abri. 4. Taire ; celer ; dissimuler.
adjective: 1. Variante de casher.
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 cacher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- cachant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- caché participle past
- cache first-person indicative present
- caches indicative present second-person
- cachons first-person indicative plural
- cachez indicative plural present
- cachent indicative plural present
- cachais first-person imperfect indicative
- cachait imperfect indicative singular
- cachions first-person imperfect indicative
- cachiez imperfect indicative plural
- cachaient imperfect indicative plural
- cachai first-person historic indicative
- cachas historic indicative past
- cacha historic indicative past
- cachâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cacher?
- /ka.ʃe/
- /ka.ʃɛʁ/
- \ka.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cacher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cacher in French?
cacher appears 29 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).