pocher
\pɔ.ʃe\
The verdict
“pocher” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en sac, en poche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pocher · pocher · French
pocher · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pocher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pocher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pocher is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pocher in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pocher, spelled P-O-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en sac, en poche.
- 2Meurtrir l’œil de quelqu’un en lui assénant un coup.
- 3Cuire un aliment en le submergeant dans un liquide chauffé.
- 4Faire cuire un œuf sans sa coquille dans de l’eau chaude, du jus, du bouillon, de manière que le blanc soit saisi et enveloppe le jaune comme d’une poche.
- 5Esquisser, exécuter rapidement une peinture, tacher.
- 6Exécuter un dessin au pochoir, faire des taches comme au pochoir.
- 7Disposer à l’aide d’une poche à douille.
- 8Échouer.
- 9Former des poches, se déformer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pocher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans que ledit fermier soit tenu, si bon ne lui semble, de pocher ni mesurer ledit sel auxdits entrepôts.
Elle nous poche aussi des lettres, les retrouve, nous les remet en se mordant la lèvre inférieure et en nous regardant de côté.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.