aronde
French, noun/a.ʁɔ̃d/
aronde is spelled A-R-O-N-D-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 84,649th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aronde is a French feminine noun meaning “swallow (bird)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancien nom de l’hirondelle”.
What does aronde mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfeminineswallow (bird)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ancien nom de l’hirondelle. 2. Genre de mollusques acéphales auquel appartient le coquillage qui fournit les perles et la nacre. 3. Genre de poissons volants (Hirundichtys spp.) à nageoires pectorales extrêmement longues, appartenant à la famille des exocétidés et dont il existe douze espèces. 4. Évasement d’une pièce en forme de V s’opposant à l’arrachement à la traction.
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 aronde
- arondes plural
- arondelle
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aronde?
- /a.ʁɔ̃d/
- \a.ʁɔ̃d\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aronde in French?
aronde appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).