lâcher
French, noun/la.ʃe/
lâcher is spelled L-Â-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 16 times per million words in written French, the 4,658th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lâcher is a French masculine noun meaning “synonym of lâchage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de lâcher dans l'espace environnant ; lâchage”.
What does lâcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to release; to loosen; to let go
- 2
to abandon, to let go
- 3
to chicken out
- 4
to fail
noun
- 1
masculinesynonym of lâchage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Détendre, desserrer quelque chose. 2. Libérer. 3. Abandonner, laisser tranquille. 4. Céder de ses prétentions, diminuer du prix qu’on demandait d’une chose.
noun: 1. Action de lâcher dans l'espace environnant ; lâchage.
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 lâcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lâchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lâché participle past
- lâche first-person indicative present
- lâches indicative present second-person
- lâchons first-person indicative plural
- lâchez indicative plural present
- lâchent indicative plural present
- lâchais first-person imperfect indicative
- lâchait imperfect indicative singular
- lâchions first-person imperfect indicative
- lâchiez imperfect indicative plural
- lâchaient imperfect indicative plural
- lâchai first-person historic indicative
- lâchas historic indicative past
- lâcha historic indicative past
- lâchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lâcher?
- /la.ʃe/
- /lɑ.ʃe/
- \lɑ.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 lâcher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lâcher in French?
lâcher appears 16 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).