lécher
French, verb/le.ʃe/
lécher is spelled L-É-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,113th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lécher is a French verb meaning “to lick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passer la langue sur quelque chose”.
What does lécher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lick
- 2
informalto polish, to refine (one's work)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Passer la langue sur quelque chose. 2. Le faire par gourmandise ou par caresse. 3. Finir un ouvrage avec un soin excessif et minutieux. → voir allèchement 4. Flatter excessivement, cirer les pompes.
noun: 1. Supplément alimentaire que l’on donne aux vaches lors de la traite.
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 lécher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- léchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- léché participle past
- lèche first-person indicative present
- lèches indicative present second-person
- léchons first-person indicative plural
- léchez indicative plural present
- lèchent indicative plural present
- léchais first-person imperfect indicative
- léchait imperfect indicative singular
- léchions first-person imperfect indicative
- léchiez imperfect indicative plural
- léchaient imperfect indicative plural
- léchai first-person historic indicative
- léchas historic indicative past
- lécha historic indicative past
- léchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lécher?
- /le.ʃe/
- \le.ʃe\
- [le.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 lécher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lécher in French?
lécher appears 3.2 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).