dullard
dul·lard/ˈdʌlɚd/noun
dullard is a noun meaning “A stupid person; a fool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-U-L-L-A-R-D and has 2 syllables (dul·lard), and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dullard is dullards.
What does dullard mean?
noun
- 1
A stupid person; a fool.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce dullard?
- US /ˈdʌlɚd/
- UK /ˈdʌləd/
Dullard has 2 syllables, split dul·lard in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dullard.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dullard
- dullards plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dullard?
Dullard appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Dullard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A stupid person; a fool:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dullard come from?
From Middle English dullard, dollard, equivalent to dull + -ard (pejorative agent suffix). Compare Faroese døll (“dullard, good-for-nothing, blockhead”), Norwegian Nynorsk døl (“idiot, simpleton”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).