étancher
French, verb/e.tɑ̃.ʃe/
étancher is spelled É-T-A-N-C-H-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 60,632nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Étancher is a French verb meaning “to make watertight, to stop water from flowing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arrêter un liquide qui s’écoule”.
What does étancher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make watertight, to stop water from flowing
- 2
to quench (thirst)
A la fontaine je m'abreuve, j'étanche ma soif.
- 3
to satiate, to quench, to assuage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Arrêter un liquide qui s’écoule. 2. Rendre étanche. 3. Apaiser, en parlant de la soif.
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 étancher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- étanchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- étanché participle past
- étanche first-person indicative present
- étanches indicative present second-person
- étanchons first-person indicative plural
- étanchez indicative plural present
- étanchent indicative plural present
- étanchais first-person imperfect indicative
- étanchait imperfect indicative singular
- étanchions first-person imperfect indicative
- étanchiez imperfect indicative plural
- étanchaient imperfect indicative plural
- étanchai first-person historic indicative
- étanchas historic indicative past
- étancha historic indicative past
- étanchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce étancher?
- /e.tɑ̃.ʃe/
- \e.tɑ̃.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 étancher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is étancher in French?
étancher appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).