raccroc
French, noun/ʁa.kʁo/
raccroc is spelled R-A-C-C-R-O-C (7 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written French, the 196,291st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Raccroc is a French masculine noun meaning “chance, fluke (random occurrence, luck)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’attraper au hasard ; coup heureux où il y a plus de chance que d’adresse”.
What does raccroc mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinechance, fluke (random occurrence, luck)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’attraper au hasard ; coup heureux où il y a plus de chance que d’adresse. 2. Coup réussi par hasard, au billard. 3. Racolage en parlant des prostituées.
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 raccroc
- raccrocs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce raccroc?
- /ʁa.kʁo/
- /ʁa.kʁɔ/
- \ʁa.kʁo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to raccroc
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is raccroc in French?
raccroc appears about once in every 38 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).