brocarder
French, verb/bʁɔ.kaʁ.de/
brocarder is spelled B-R-O-C-A-R-D-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 155,929th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brocarder is a French verb meaning “to mock, ridicule” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Railler par des brocards”.
What does brocarder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mock, ridicule
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Railler par des brocards.
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 brocarder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- brocardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- brocardé participle past
- brocarde first-person indicative present
- brocardes indicative present second-person
- brocardons first-person indicative plural
- brocardez indicative plural present
- brocardent indicative plural present
- brocardais first-person imperfect indicative
- brocardait imperfect indicative singular
- brocardions first-person imperfect indicative
- brocardiez imperfect indicative plural
- brocardaient imperfect indicative plural
- brocardai first-person historic indicative
- brocardas historic indicative past
- brocarda historic indicative past
- brocardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce brocarder?
- /bʁɔ.kaʁ.de/
- \bʁɔ.kaʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is brocarder in French?
brocarder appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).