joncher
French, verb/ʒɔ̃.ʃe/
joncher is spelled J-O-N-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 46 million words in written French, the 214,487th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Joncher is a French verb meaning “to scatter, sprinkle (e.g. flowers)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Parsemer de jonc, de feuillages, de fleurs, de branchages verts, pour une cérémonie”.
What does joncher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scatter, sprinkle (e.g. flowers)
- 2
to cover, litter, to be strewn over (be widespread, be sprawled across/around)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Parsemer de jonc, de feuillages, de fleurs, de branchages verts, pour une cérémonie. 2. Épandre une grande quantité d’objets de façon éparse. 3. Procéder à la pose de branchages sur le sol des rues où passera une procession.
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 joncher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- jonchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- jonché participle past
- jonche first-person indicative present
- jonches indicative present second-person
- jonchons first-person indicative plural
- jonchez indicative plural present
- jonchent indicative plural present
- jonchais first-person imperfect indicative
- jonchait imperfect indicative singular
- jonchions first-person imperfect indicative
- jonchiez imperfect indicative plural
- jonchaient imperfect indicative plural
- jonchai first-person historic indicative
- jonchas historic indicative past
- joncha historic indicative past
- jonchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce joncher?
- /ʒɔ̃.ʃe/
- [ʒɔ̃.ʃe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to joncher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is joncher in French?
joncher appears about once in every 46 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).