scratcher
French, verb/skʁat.ʃe/
scratcher is spelled S-C-R-A-T-C-H-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Scratcher is a French verb meaning “to scratch, to make a scratch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Produire des sons à partir d'une platine de disques en perturbant la rotation des disques”.
What does scratcher mean in English?
verb
- 1
Quebeccolloquialto scratch, to make a scratch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Produire des sons à partir d'une platine de disques en perturbant la rotation des disques. 2. Éliminer un concurrent en retard ou qui ne se présente pas au départ d'une compétition. 3. Égratigner, faire une rayure.
noun: 1. Tatoueur non officiellement déclaré comme tel auprès d’une autorité d’enregistrement des entreprises.
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 scratcher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- scratchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- scratché participle past
- scratche first-person indicative present
- scratches indicative present second-person
- scratchons first-person indicative plural
- scratchez indicative plural present
- scratchent indicative plural present
- scratchais first-person imperfect indicative
- scratchait imperfect indicative singular
- scratchions first-person imperfect indicative
- scratchiez imperfect indicative plural
- scratchaient imperfect indicative plural
- scratchai first-person historic indicative
- scratchas historic indicative past
- scratcha historic indicative past
- scratchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce scratcher?
- /skʁat.ʃe/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is scratcher in French?
scratcher appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).