trébucher
French, verb/tʁe.by.ʃe/
trébucher is spelled T-R-É-B-U-C-H-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trébucher is a French verb meaning “to trip, to stumble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire un faux pas”.
What does trébucher mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trip, to stumble
perdre l'équilibre et trébucher
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire un faux pas. 2. Tomber. 3. Déchoir. 4. Emporter par sa pesanteur celle contre laquelle elle est pesée, faire pencher le trébuchet.
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 trébucher
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- trébuchant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- trébuché participle past
- trébuche first-person indicative present
- trébuches indicative present second-person
- trébuchons first-person indicative plural
- trébuchez indicative plural present
- trébuchent indicative plural present
- trébuchais first-person imperfect indicative
- trébuchait imperfect indicative singular
- trébuchions first-person imperfect indicative
- trébuchiez imperfect indicative plural
- trébuchaient imperfect indicative plural
- trébuchai first-person historic indicative
- trébuchas historic indicative past
- trébucha historic indicative past
- trébuchâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trébucher?
- /tʁe.by.ʃe/
- \tʁe.by.ʃe\
- [tʁe.by.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 trébucher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trébucher in French?
trébucher appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).