gauchir
French, verb/ɡo.ʃiʁ/
gauchir is spelled G-A-U-C-H-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written French, the 273,192nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gauchir is a French verb meaning “to dodge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Détourner tant soit peu le corps pour éviter quelque coup”.
What does gauchir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dodge
- 2
to speak or act deceptively
- 3
to warp, buckle, distort, bend
- 4
to flavour with left-oriented political views
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détourner tant soit peu le corps pour éviter quelque coup. 2. Ne pas agir ou ne pas parler avec franchise.
verb: 1. Perdre sa planéité, et par extension sa forme, se contourner ; dévier de la ligne droite. 2. Infléchir. 3. Synonyme de fléchir. 4. Donner à un discours, à des doctrines, etc., une orientation vers la gauche.
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 gauchir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gauchissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gauchi participle past
- gauchis first-person indicative present
- gauchit indicative present singular
- gauchissons first-person indicative plural
- gauchissez indicative plural present
- gauchissent indicative plural present
- gauchissais first-person imperfect indicative
- gauchissait imperfect indicative singular
- gauchissions first-person imperfect indicative
- gauchissiez imperfect indicative plural
- gauchissaient imperfect indicative plural
- gauchîmes first-person historic indicative
- gauchîtes historic indicative past
- gauchirent historic indicative past
- gauchirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gauchir?
- /ɡo.ʃiʁ/
- \ɡɔ.ʃiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gauchir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gauchir in French?
gauchir appears about once in every 76 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).