bâtard
French, noun/ba.taʁ/
bâtard is spelled B-Â-T-A-R-D (6 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written French, the 10,294th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bâtard is a French masculine noun meaning “bastard (person born to unmarried parents)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Garçon né hors mariage”.
What does bâtard mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bastard
noun
- 1
masculinebastard (person born to unmarried parents)
- 2
masculinehybrid plant
- 3
masculinebatard (short baguette)
- 4
masculinevulgarbastard, asshole
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est né de parents non mariés ensemble. 2. Qualifie un animal né de parents de races différentes. 3. Hybride. 4. Insatisfaisant, ni fait, ni à faire.
noun: 1. Garçon né hors mariage. 2. Homme méprisable, dont l’origine remise en cause.
noun: 1. Pain en longueur à mie blanche plus gros qu’une baguette. 2. Petit couteau, sorte de dague. 3. Sucre grossier à l'état solide produit par des sirops qui sont le résidu d'un raffinage précédent.
interjection: 1. Interjection servant à accentuer quelque propos.
noun: 1. Ver rouge, capturé dans les rochers côtiers, pour amorcer. 2. Rouget.
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 bâtard
- bâtarde feminine
- bâtards masculine plural
- bâtardes feminine plural
- batards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bâtard?
- /ba.taʁ/
- /bɑ.taʁ/
- \bɑ.taʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bâtard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bâtard in French?
bâtard appears 5.6 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).