clocher
French, noun/klɔ.ʃe/
clocher is spelled C-L-O-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written French, the 14,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clocher is a French masculine noun meaning “bell tower, steeple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bâtiment de maçonnerie ou de charpente dans lequel sont suspendues les cloches et qui est ordinairement élevé…”.
What does clocher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebell tower, steeple
verb
- 1
to ring a bell
verb
- 1
to limp
- 2
to wobble
- 3
informalto be wrong
Il y a quelque chose qui cloche.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bâtiment de maçonnerie ou de charpente dans lequel sont suspendues les cloches et qui est ordinairement élevé au-dessus d’une église. 2. Paroisse.
verb: 1. Sonner à la cloche. 2. Annoncer un événement à coups de cloche. 3. Mettre sous cloche.
verb: 1. Boiter. 2. Être bancal. 3. Ne pas aller bien, avoir un défaut, en parlant de quelque chose.
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 clocher
- clochers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- clochant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- cloché participle past
- cloche first-person indicative present
- cloches indicative present second-person
- clochons first-person indicative plural
- clochez indicative plural present
- clochent indicative plural present
- clochais first-person imperfect indicative
- clochait imperfect indicative singular
- clochions first-person imperfect indicative
- clochiez imperfect indicative plural
- clochaient imperfect indicative plural
- clochai first-person historic indicative
- clochas historic indicative past
- clocha historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce clocher?
- /klɔ.ʃe/
- \klɔ.ʃe\
- [klɔ.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 clocher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clocher in French?
clocher appears 3.5 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).