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craché

French, adjective

craché is spelled C-R-A-C-H-É (6 letters) and appears 4.4 times per million words in written French, the 12,326th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Craché is a French adjective meaning “strongly resembling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cracher. Without its accent, crache is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “D'une ressemblance parfaite avec quelqu'un ou quelque chose d'autre”.

What does craché mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialstrongly resembling

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of cracher

verb

as crache
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Rejet de métal en fusion par l’avant d’une tuyère. 2. Salive

noun: 1. Canine surnuméraire. Celles du cerf étaient dès le paléolithique utilisées comme bijoux

adjective: 1. D'une ressemblance parfaite avec quelqu'un ou quelque chose d'autre.

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 craché

  • crachée feminine
  • crachés masculine plural
  • crachées feminine plural
  • craches plural

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

How common is craché in French?

craché appears 4.4 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).

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