cagnard
\ka.ɲaʁ\
The verdict
“cagnard” is uncommon French (frequency #81,850 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,850
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’accroupit comme un chien et ne bouge plus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cagnard · cagnard · French
cagnard · rank #81,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,850
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cafetières
Nearest frequency peer: cafetières (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cagnard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cabeza
cabeza
18,154 corpus weight
- cacatoès
cacatoès
18,153 corpus weight
- cafetières
cafetières
18,152 corpus weight
- cagnard
cagnard
18,151 corpus weight
- Cajamarca
Cajamarca
18,150 corpus weight
- calcique
calcique
18,149 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cagnard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cagnard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ka.ɲaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cagnard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cagnard is uncommon French at frequency #81,850 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ka.ɲaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
cagnard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is cagnard, spelled C-A-G-N-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui s’accroupit comme un chien et ne bouge plus.
- 2Qui n’aime pas bouger, qui est paresseux.
- 3Qui est lâche, poltron.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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