rocher
French, noun/ʁɔ.ʃe/
rocher is spelled R-O-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rocher is a French masculine noun meaning “rock (mass of projecting rock)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée”.
What does rocher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerock (mass of projecting rock)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Grande masse de pierre dure, escarpée. 2. Matière minérale qui constitue un rocher, on dit plutôt roche. 3. Personnage au cœur dur, insensible. 4. Une des trois parties de l’os temporal, qui est très forte et très dure. (Terminologia anatomica : pars petrosa ossis temporalis)
verb: 1. Couvrir de borax deux pièces métalliques avant de les souder ou de les braser.
verb: 1. Mousser en parlant de la bière qui fermente. 2. Pour les métaux, subir un phénomène de rochage, former des cloques en se solidifiant.
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 rocher
- rochers plural
- avoir roché infinitive past
- en rochant gerund present
- en ayant roché gerund past
- rochant participle present
- roché participle past
- je roche indicative present
- tu roches indicative present
- il/elle/on roche indicative present
- nous rochons indicative present
- vous rochez indicative present
- ils/elles rochent indicative present
- j’ai roché indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as roché indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a roché indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons roché indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez roché indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont roché indicative past multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rocher?
- /ʁɔ.ʃe/
- \ʁɔ.ʃe\
- \ʁo.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 rocher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rocher in French?
rocher appears 11 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).