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doucher

French, verb/du.ʃe/

doucher is spelled D-O-U-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 27,365th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doucher is a French verb meaning “to shower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arroser au moyen d’une douche”.

What does doucher mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to shower

  2. 2

    to take a shower

  3. 3

    colloquialto disappoint

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Arroser au moyen d’une douche. 2. Laver au moyen d’une douche. 3. Décevoir ; décourager.

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 doucher

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • douchant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • douché participle past
  • douche first-person indicative present
  • douches indicative present second-person
  • douchons first-person indicative plural
  • douchez indicative plural present
  • douchent indicative plural present
  • douchais first-person imperfect indicative
  • douchait imperfect indicative singular
  • douchions first-person imperfect indicative
  • douchiez imperfect indicative plural
  • douchaient imperfect indicative plural
  • douchai first-person historic indicative
  • douchas historic indicative past
  • doucha historic indicative past
  • douchâmes first-person historic indicative

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

How do you pronounce doucher?

  • /du.ʃe/
  • \du.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 doucher

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is doucher in French?

doucher appears 1.3 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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