faucher
French, verb/fo.ʃe/
faucher is spelled F-A-U-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Faucher is a French verb meaning “to mow, to reap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couper à la faux ou à la machine”.
What does faucher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mow, to reap
- 2
to run over, to knock down
- 3
to steal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Couper à la faux ou à la machine. 2. Coucher, abattre en parlant du vent, de la pluie etc. 3. Abattre en grand nombre. 4. Renverser, faire chuter quelqu'un volontairement ou non.
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 faucher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fauchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fauché participle past
- fauche first-person indicative present
- fauches indicative present second-person
- fauchons first-person indicative plural
- fauchez indicative plural present
- fauchent indicative plural present
- fauchais first-person imperfect indicative
- fauchait imperfect indicative singular
- fauchions first-person imperfect indicative
- fauchiez imperfect indicative plural
- fauchaient imperfect indicative plural
- fauchai first-person historic indicative
- fauchas historic indicative past
- faucha historic indicative past
- fauchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce faucher?
- /fo.ʃe/
- \fo.ʃe\
- [fo.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 faucher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is faucher in French?
faucher 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).