découcher
French, verb/de.ku.ʃe/
découcher is spelled D-É-C-O-U-C-H-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Découcher is a French verb meaning “to sleep away from home, to stay the night elsewhere” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coucher hors de chez soi, hors du logis où l’on a accoutumé de coucher”.
What does découcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sleep away from home, to stay the night elsewhere
- 2
to stay out all night
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Coucher hors de chez soi, hors du logis où l’on a accoutumé de coucher. 2. Aller dormir chez un amant, une amante.
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 découcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- découchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- découché participle past
- découche first-person indicative present
- découches indicative present second-person
- découchons first-person indicative plural
- découchez indicative plural present
- découchent indicative plural present
- découchais first-person imperfect indicative
- découchait imperfect indicative singular
- découchions first-person imperfect indicative
- découchiez imperfect indicative plural
- découchaient imperfect indicative plural
- découchai first-person historic indicative
- découchas historic indicative past
- découcha historic indicative past
- découchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce découcher?
- /de.ku.ʃe/
- \de.ku.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is découcher in French?
découcher 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).