vacher
French, noun/va.ʃe/
vacher is spelled V-A-C-H-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,824th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vacher is a French masculine noun meaning “cowherd” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui mène paître les vaches, les bovins, qui les garde, les soigne et s’en occupe”.
What does vacher mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecowherd
adjective
- 1
cow
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui mène paître les vaches, les bovins, qui les garde, les soigne et s’en occupe. 2. Responsable technique d’un cheptel de vaches laitières. 3. Genre de passereau.
verb: 1. S’attacher. 2. Faire un atterrissage forcé en pleine nature.
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 vacher
- vachers plural
- vachère feminine
- vachères feminine plural
- se vacher pronominal
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vacher?
- /va.ʃe/
- \va.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 vacher
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vacher in French?
vacher appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).