pêcher
French, noun
pêcher is spelled P-Ê-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 15,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pêcher is a French masculine noun meaning “peach tree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pécher is a different word: “to sin”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbre de la famille des Rosacées, qui produit les pêches”.
What does pêcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fish
noun
- 1
masculinepeach tree
verb
- 1
to sin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Transgresser la loi divine ou religieuse. 2. Faillir contre quelque règle de morale. 3. Faillir contre quelque autre règle que ce soit. 4. Mal user d’une bonne qualité ou d’une bonne intention, la porter trop loin, en avoir l’excès.
noun: 1. Arbre de la famille des Rosacées, qui produit les pêches.
verb: 1. Prendre du poisson. 2. Tirer quelque chose de l’eau. 3. Saisir pour s’approvisionner. 4. Trouver, en sous-entendant que c’est erroné.
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 pêcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pêchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pêché participle past
- pêche first-person indicative present
- pêches indicative present second-person
- pêchons first-person indicative plural
- pêchez indicative plural present
- pêchent indicative plural present
- pêchais first-person imperfect indicative
- pêchait imperfect indicative singular
- pêchions first-person imperfect indicative
- pêchiez imperfect indicative plural
- pêchaient imperfect indicative plural
- pêchai first-person historic indicative
- pêchas historic indicative past
- pêcha historic indicative past
- pêchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pêcher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pêcher in French?
pêcher appears 3.0 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).