éplucher
French, verb/e.ply.ʃe/
éplucher is spelled É-P-L-U-C-H-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éplucher is a French verb meaning “to peel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enlever la peau ou les parties les moins comestibles d’un fruit ou d’un légume”.
What does éplucher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to peel
- 2
to scrutinise
- 3
to preen
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enlever la peau ou les parties les moins comestibles d’un fruit ou d’un légume. 2. Examiner attentivement pour trouver une erreur. 3. Examiner attentivement le comportement ou l’apparence de quelqu’un dans un but critique. 4. Nettoyer la vermine ou les ordures présentes sur le corps des 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 éplucher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- épluchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- épluché participle past
- épluche first-person indicative present
- épluches indicative present second-person
- épluchons first-person indicative plural
- épluchez indicative plural present
- épluchent indicative plural present
- épluchais first-person imperfect indicative
- épluchait imperfect indicative singular
- épluchions first-person imperfect indicative
- épluchiez imperfect indicative plural
- épluchaient imperfect indicative plural
- épluchai first-person historic indicative
- épluchas historic indicative past
- éplucha historic indicative past
- épluchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éplucher?
- /e.ply.ʃe/
- \e.ply.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 éplucher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éplucher in French?
éplucher appears 1.1 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).