gauchiste
French, noun/ɡo.ʃist/
gauchiste is spelled G-A-U-C-H-I-S-T-E (9 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written French, the 20,671st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gauchiste is a French feminine noun meaning “leftist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui professe des idées politiques relevant du gauchisme”.
What does gauchiste mean in English?
adjective
- 1
derogatoryleftist
noun
- 1
derogatoryfemininemasculineleftist
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui professe des idées politiques relevant du gauchisme.
adjective: 1. Qualificatif employé par une organisation politique pour qualifier une doctrine, une politique ou une organisation située plus à gauche qu'elle sur l'échiquier politique.
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 gauchiste
- gauchistes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gauchiste?
- /ɡo.ʃist/
- \ɡo.ʃist\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gauchiste in French?
gauchiste 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).