faluche
French, noun/fa.lyʃ/
faluche is spelled F-A-L-U-C-H-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faluche is a French feminine noun meaning “faluche” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pain blanc des Flandres sans croûte, plat et arrondi”.
What does faluche mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefaluche
- 2
femininea type of dense white bread from northern France
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pain blanc des Flandres sans croûte, plat et arrondi. 2. Béret en velours noir autrefois traditionnellement porté par les étudiants de France.
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 faluche
- faluches plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faluche?
- /fa.lyʃ/
- \fa.lyʃ\
- [fa.ly.ʃə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is faluche in French?
faluche appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).