crécher
French, verb/kʁe.ʃe/
crécher is spelled C-R-É-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crécher is a French verb meaning “to flop (to stay, sleep or live in a place)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Habiter”.
What does crécher mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto flop (to stay, sleep or live in a place)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Habiter. 2. Rester à dormir chez quelqu’un. 3. Mettre à la crèche, en parlant du bétail. 4. Mettre à la crèche, en parlant de petits animaux.
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 crécher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- créchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- créché participle past
- crèche first-person indicative present
- crèches indicative present second-person
- créchons first-person indicative plural
- créchez indicative plural present
- crèchent indicative plural present
- créchais first-person imperfect indicative
- créchait imperfect indicative singular
- créchions first-person imperfect indicative
- créchiez imperfect indicative plural
- créchaient imperfect indicative plural
- créchai first-person historic indicative
- créchas historic indicative past
- crécha historic indicative past
- créchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce crécher?
- /kʁe.ʃe/
- \kʁe.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is crécher in French?
crécher appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).