rechercher
French, verb/ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/
rechercher is spelled R-E-C-H-E-R-C-H-E-R (10 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rechercher is a French verb meaning “to search for, seek, to look for” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chercher avec soin”.
What does rechercher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to search for, seek, to look for
- 2
to search again, to look for again
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Chercher avec soin. 2. Enquêter sur les actions ou la vie de quelqu’un ; faire une enquête pour exercer des poursuites criminelles. 3. Tâcher de se procurer, d’obtenir. 4. Chercher de nouveau.
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 rechercher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recherchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- recherché participle past
- recherche first-person indicative present
- recherches indicative present second-person
- recherchons first-person indicative plural
- recherchez indicative plural present
- recherchent indicative plural present
- recherchais first-person imperfect indicative
- recherchait imperfect indicative singular
- recherchions first-person imperfect indicative
- recherchiez imperfect indicative plural
- recherchaient imperfect indicative plural
- recherchai first-person historic indicative
- recherchas historic indicative past
- rechercha historic indicative past
- recherchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rechercher?
- /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/
- \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe\
- [ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rechercher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rechercher in French?
rechercher appears 13 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).