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arraché

French, noun

arraché is a French masculine noun meaning “snatch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of arracher. Without its accent, arrache is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tissu fabriqué à partir de laine cardée passée à la laineuse”.

What does arraché mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesnatch

adjective

  1. 1

    erased

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of arracher

verb

as arrache
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est enlevé en force.

noun: 1. Tissu fabriqué à partir de laine cardée passée à la laineuse. 2. Soulèvement d’une barre d’haltérophilie du sol jusqu’au-dessus de la tête en effectuant une flexion des jambes.

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 arraché

  • arrachée feminine
  • arrachés masculine plural
  • arrachées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is arraché in French?

arraché appears 7.2 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).