rucher
French, noun/ʁy.ʃe/
rucher is spelled R-U-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rucher is a French masculine noun meaning “apiary (a place where bees and hives are kept)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble de ruches d’abeilles”.
What does rucher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapiary (a place where bees and hives are kept)
verb
- 1
to pile up hay stacks in the form of a beehive
- 2
to shirr or to pleat an item of clothing patterned after a beehive
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ensemble de ruches d’abeilles. 2. Endroit où sont situées des ruches.
verb: 1. Disposer du foin en petites meules rappelant des ruches d’abeilles. 2. Plisser ou froncer en ruche ; garnir d’un ruché.
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 rucher
- ruchers plural
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ruchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ruché participle past
- ruche first-person indicative present
- ruches indicative present second-person
- ruchons first-person indicative plural
- ruchez indicative plural present
- ruchent indicative plural present
- ruchais first-person imperfect indicative
- ruchait imperfect indicative singular
- ruchions first-person imperfect indicative
- ruchiez imperfect indicative plural
- ruchaient imperfect indicative plural
- ruchai first-person historic indicative
- ruchas historic indicative past
- rucha historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rucher?
- /ʁy.ʃe/
- \ʁy.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 rucher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rucher in French?
rucher appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).