flécher
French, verb/fle.ʃe/
flécher is spelled F-L-É-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flécher is a French verb meaning “to mark with arrows” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jalonner de flèches indiquant la route ou la direction à suivre”.
What does flécher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mark with arrows
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Jalonner de flèches indiquant la route ou la direction à suivre. 2. Atteindre d’une flèche. 3. Orienter. 4. Commencer à se développer, en parlant de la flèche de la canne à sucre.
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 flécher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fléchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fléché participle past
- flèche first-person indicative present
- flèches indicative present second-person
- fléchons first-person indicative plural
- fléchez indicative plural present
- flèchent indicative plural present
- fléchais first-person imperfect indicative
- fléchait imperfect indicative singular
- fléchions first-person imperfect indicative
- fléchiez imperfect indicative plural
- fléchaient imperfect indicative plural
- fléchai first-person historic indicative
- fléchas historic indicative past
- flécha historic indicative past
- fléchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flécher?
- /fle.ʃe/
- \fle.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flécher in French?
flécher appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).