sèche
French, noun
sèche is spelled S-È-C-H-E (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sèche is a French feminine noun meaning “mud flat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of sec. With an accent, séché is a different word: “past participle of sécher”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cigarette”.
What does sèche mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemud flat
- 2
colloquialfemininecigarette
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of sec
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of sécher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui résulte d’un séchage.
noun: 1. Cigarette. 2. Perte de poids subie par une viande à cause de l’évaporation de l’eau. 3. Haut-fond dangereux pour la navigation. 4. Maladie affectant le pin des Landes.
verb: 1. Du verbe secher.
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 sèche
- sèches plural
- séchée feminine
- séchés masculine plural
- séchées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to sèche
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sèche in French?
sèche appears 14 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).