prêche
French, noun
prêche is spelled P-R-Ê-C-H-E (6 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prêche is a French masculine noun meaning “sermon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of prêcher. With an accent, prêché is a different word: “past participle of prêcher”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Discours, sermon tenu devant une assemblée de croyants dans un but d’enseignement, d’édification”.
What does prêche mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesermon
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of prêcher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Discours, sermon tenu devant une assemblée de croyants dans un but d’enseignement, d’édification. 2. Sermons que les ministres de la religion protestante font dans leurs temples. 3. Discours moralisateur et ennuyeux.
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 prêche
- prêches plural
- prêchée feminine
- prêchés masculine plural
- prêchées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to prêche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prêche in French?
prêche appears 1.8 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).