quicher
\ki.ʃe\
The verdict
“quicher” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boisson du Yémen faite à partir d'une infusion de parche grillées de graines de café.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quicher · quicher · French
quicher · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" 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 | quicher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ki.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
quicher is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ki.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boisson du Yémen faite à partir d'une infusion de parche grillées de graines de café.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for quicher, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is quicher, spelled Q-U-I-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Boisson du Yémen faite à partir d'une infusion de parche grillées de graines de café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quicher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cet effet fait brûler le quicher sur des charbons ardents, on le met ensuite dans des vases plein d'eau, on le laisse sur le feu pendant une heure, temps nécessaire pour que le quicher soit bon.
Une boisson très estimée que les Européens ne trouvent pas à leur goût et désignent sous le nom de café à la sultane. Cette boisson est appelée, du nom de la coque : Quicher. — (Jules Ballet, La Guadeloupe, Éd. Imprimerie du gouvernement, 1896)
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.