fourche
French, noun
fourche is spelled F-O-U-R-C-H-E (7 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fourche is a French feminine noun meaning “pitchfork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, fourché is a different word: “past participle of fourcher”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instrument qui consiste en un long manche de bois terminé par deux ou trois branches ou pointes de bois, de…”.
What does fourche mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepitchfork
- 2
femininefork (in the road etc.)
- 3
femininecrotch
- 4
femininesplit end (hair)
- 5
femininefork (of a bicycle)
verb
- 1
past participle of fourcher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument qui consiste en un long manche de bois terminé par deux ou trois branches ou pointes de bois, de fer, qui vont en s’écartant. 2. Tout ce qui a la forme ou rappelle la forme de cet instrument. 3. Chose qui se divise en deux ou trois par l’extrémité. 4. Division, en particulier prématurée, du tronc en plusieurs branches.
adjective: 1. Qualifie une croix dont les branches sont terminées par trois pointes qui font deux angles rentrants. 2. Qualifie le pied des animaux dont le nombre de sabots est pair.
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 fourche
- fourches plural
- fourchée feminine
- fourchés masculine plural
- fourchées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fourche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fourche in French?
fourche appears 2.0 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).