fourcher
French, verb/fuʁ.ʃe/
fourcher is spelled F-O-U-R-C-H-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written French, the 264,399th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fourcher is a French verb meaning “to fork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se partager, se diviser en deux ou trois par l’extrémité, en manière de fourche”.
What does fourcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fork
- 2
to make a slip of the tongue
la langue a fourché
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Se partager, se diviser en deux ou trois par l’extrémité, en manière de fourche. 2. Former plusieurs branches, d’une descendance. 3. Variante de forker : dupliquer un code source pour créer un nouveau projet. 4. Prononcer un mot pour un autre, par méprise, en parlant de la langue d’une personne.
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 fourcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fourchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fourché participle past
- fourche first-person indicative present
- fourches indicative present second-person
- fourchons first-person indicative plural
- fourchez indicative plural present
- fourchent indicative plural present
- fourchais first-person imperfect indicative
- fourchait imperfect indicative singular
- fourchions first-person imperfect indicative
- fourchiez imperfect indicative plural
- fourchaient imperfect indicative plural
- fourchai first-person historic indicative
- fourchas historic indicative past
- fourcha historic indicative past
- fourchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fourcher?
- /fuʁ.ʃe/
- \fuʁ.ʃe\
- [fuʁ.ʃe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fourcher in French?
fourcher appears about once in every 71 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).