fauchon
French, noun/fo.ʃɔ̃/
fauchon is spelled F-A-U-C-H-O-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fauchon is a French masculine noun meaning “falchion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sabre de taille moyenne, dont la poignée est protégée par une garde”.
What does fauchon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefalchion
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sabre de taille moyenne, dont la poignée est protégée par une garde. 2. Petite faux pour couper les céréales, ou faux armée d’un râteau destiné à rabattre les tiges coupées vers la gauche du faucheur ou du moissonneur.
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 fauchon
- fauchons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fauchon?
- /fo.ʃɔ̃/
- \fo.ʃɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fauchon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fauchon in French?
fauchon appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).