lyncher
French, verb/lɛ̃.ʃe/
lyncher is spelled L-Y-N-C-H-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lyncher is a French verb meaning “to lynch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Exécuter sans jugement (d’après ce que les Américains du Nord appellent la loi de Lynch, la loi du talion)”.
What does lyncher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to lynch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Exécuter sans jugement (d’après ce que les Américains du Nord appellent la loi de Lynch, la loi du talion). 2. Réaliser toute forme de violence par laquelle une foule, sous prétexte de rendre la justice sans procès, exécute une personne qu’elle considère « coupable ».
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 lyncher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lynchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lynché participle past
- lynche first-person indicative present
- lynches indicative present second-person
- lynchons first-person indicative plural
- lynchez indicative plural present
- lynchent indicative plural present
- lynchais first-person imperfect indicative
- lynchait imperfect indicative singular
- lynchions first-person imperfect indicative
- lynchiez imperfect indicative plural
- lynchaient imperfect indicative plural
- lynchai first-person historic indicative
- lynchas historic indicative past
- lyncha historic indicative past
- lynchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lyncher?
- /lɛ̃.ʃe/
- \lɛ̃.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 lyncher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lyncher in French?
lyncher appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).