rancher
\ʁɑ̃.ʃe\
The verdict
“rancher” 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) - Sorte d’échelle, pièce de bois garnie de chevilles qui servent d’échelons, utilisée en particulier pour les grues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rancher · rancher · French
rancher · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | rancher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rancher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rancher is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɑ̃.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rancher, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 rancher, spelled R-A-N-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sorte d’échelle, pièce de bois garnie de chevilles qui servent d’échelons, utilisée en particulier pour les grues.
- 2Barre verticale disposée en bordure d’une plateforme ou d’un panier, destinée à retenir les charges de grande longueur, comme des grumes, des tubes, des rails.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rancher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La piece de bois qui porte & qui sert à élever les fardeaux, s’appelle échelier ou rancher ; elle est garnie de chevilles ou ranches, & posée sur un pivot de fer qui est au bout du poinçon de l’arbre : il est assemblé avec plusieurs moises à des liens montans.
Les wagonnets, ou porteurs proprement dits, sont de petites plates-formes roulantes, à essieux (fig. 88) disposées de manière à recevoir, selon les cas, ou la matière à transporter maintenue par quatre ranchers, ou de simples corbeilles en osier, ou des caisses à claire-voie, destinées à contenir des racines ou des substances analogues.
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.