braillard
French, noun/bʁa.jaʁ/
braillard is spelled B-R-A-I-L-L-A-R-D (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 70,496th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Braillard is a French masculine noun meaning “screamer, shouter, yeller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne braillarde”.
What does braillard mean in English?
adjective
- 1
bawling, yelling
noun
- 1
masculinescreamer, shouter, yeller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui parle beaucoup et fort haut et mal à propos. 2. Qui pleure beaucoup et souvent, qui se plaint beaucoup.
noun: 1. Personne braillarde. 2. Porte-voix simple, qui était utilisé sur les bateaux pour le commandement des manœuvres.
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 braillard
- braillarde feminine
- braillards masculine plural
- braillardes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce braillard?
- /bʁa.jaʁ/
- /bʁɑ.jaʁ/
- \bʁa.jaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to braillard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is braillard in French?
braillard appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).