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quebracho

French, noun

quebracho is spelled Q-U-E-B-R-A-C-H-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Quebracho is a French masculine noun meaning “Pre-1990 spelling of québracho” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, québracho is a different word: “quebracho”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de québracho”.

What does quebracho mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinePre-1990 spelling of québracho.

noun

as québracho
  1. 1

    masculinequebracho

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variante orthographique de québracho

noun: 1. Nom donné à des arbres d’Amérique du Sud, à bois très dur et riche en tanin, appartenant à la famille des apocynacées ou à celle des anacardiacées.

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 quebracho

  • quebrachos plural
  • québrachos plural
  • quebracho alternative
  • québracho

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is quebracho in French?

quebracho appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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