loucher
\lu.ʃe\
The verdict
“loucher” is uncommon French (frequency #75,857 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,857
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être atteint de strabisme, en parlant d'une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-loucher · loucher · French
loucher · rank #75,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,857
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH loom
Nearest frequency peer: loom (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « loucher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lobotomie
lobotomie
24,148 corpus weight
- loisible
loisible
24,146 corpus weight
- loom
loom
24,145 corpus weight
- loucher
loucher
24,144 corpus weight
- louet
louet
24,143 corpus weight
- loupés
loupés
24,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « loucher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loucher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lu.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « loucher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
loucher is uncommon French at frequency #75,857 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lu.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for loucher, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is loucher, spelled L-O-U-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être atteint de strabisme, en parlant d'une personne.
- 2Converger, ou diverger, en parlant des yeux.
- 3Forcer ses yeux à converger artificiellement.
- 4Jeter un œil de façon détournée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how loucher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et le feu d’un petit brasero avec trois grelotteux autour qui louchaient dans la fumée puante. On n’était pas très bien.
Il avait trente ans. Il était pistonné. Il le serait toujours car il faisait le nécessaire ; et il avait épousé une femme qui louchait mais qui l’apparentait aux familles en place.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "loucher", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).