vacher
\va.ʃe\
The verdict
“vacher” is uncommon French (frequency #56,345 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,345
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui mène paître les vaches, les bovins, qui les garde, les soigne et s’en occupe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vacher · vacher · French
vacher · rank #56,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,345
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH usurier
Nearest frequency peer: usurier (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « vacher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- UPC
UPC
43,659 corpus weight
- uppercut
uppercut
43,658 corpus weight
- usurier
usurier
43,657 corpus weight
- vacher
vacher
43,656 corpus weight
- vagabondage
vagabondage
43,655 corpus weight
- Valhalla
Valhalla
43,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vacher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vacher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vacher is uncommon French at frequency #56,345 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vacher in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vacher, spelled V-A-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui mène paître les vaches, les bovins, qui les garde, les soigne et s’en occupe.
- 2Responsable technique d’un cheptel de vaches laitières.
- 3Genre de passereau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vacher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au temps jadis, il y avait au village de Saint-Saulve, du côté de Valenciennes, un petit vacher qu’on nommait Jean du Gogué, à cause qu’on ne lui connaissait ni père ni mère […]
Placée comme je l’étais, dans le banc transversal des enfants de Marie groupées autour d’un harmonium essoufflé, je le voyais trop bien, sur ma droite, comme je voyais trop bien, sur ma gauche, assis pour le credo, notre vieux doyen, tout menu, tout chenu, enfoui sous la chasuble verte des interminables dimanches après la Pentecôte et à peine capable de s…
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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