matcher
\mat.ʃe\
The verdict
“matcher” is uncommon French (frequency #68,455 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,455
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disputer une compétition : concourir, compétitionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matcher · matcher · French
matcher · rank #68,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,455
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH masturbé
Nearest frequency peer: masturbé (-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 « matcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- martingale
martingale
31,550 corpus weight
- masa
masa
31,549 corpus weight
- masturbé
masturbé
31,547 corpus weight
- matcher
matcher
31,546 corpus weight
- Mayfield
Mayfield
31,545 corpus weight
- McAvoy
McAvoy
31,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « matcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mat.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matcher is uncommon French at frequency #68,455 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mat.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for matcher, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is matcher, spelled M-A-T-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Disputer une compétition : concourir, compétitionner.
- 2Correspondre, être en correspondance, aller bien ensemble.
- 3Réconcilier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how matcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur Tinder, il affiche déjà fièrement une photo de lui torse-nu prise devant la glace de sa salle de bain. Une photo grâce à laquelle il a “matché” avec Cynthia, 25 ans, originaire elle aussi des Bouches-du-Rhône ; trop maquillée et les seins refaits, Cynthia, avec sa bouche en canard, a tapé dans l’œil de Loïc.
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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