repêcher
French, verb/ʁə.pɛ.ʃe/
repêcher is spelled R-E-P-Ê-C-H-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 58,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Repêcher is a French verb meaning “to fish out, rescue (from water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retirer de l’eau une personne ou une chose qui y était tombée”.
What does repêcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fish out, rescue (from water)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Retirer de l’eau une personne ou une chose qui y était tombée. 2. Accepter, sur nouvelle délibération, un candidat en passe d’être refusé.
verb: 1. Pécher à 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 repêcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- repêchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- repêché participle past
- repêche first-person indicative present
- repêches indicative present second-person
- repêchons first-person indicative plural
- repêchez indicative plural present
- repêchent indicative plural present
- repêchais first-person imperfect indicative
- repêchait imperfect indicative singular
- repêchions first-person imperfect indicative
- repêchiez imperfect indicative plural
- repêchaient imperfect indicative plural
- repêchai first-person historic indicative
- repêchas historic indicative past
- repêcha historic indicative past
- repêchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce repêcher?
- /ʁə.pɛ.ʃe/
- /ʁə.pe.ʃe/
- \ʁə.pe.ʃe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is repêcher in French?
repêcher appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).