canarder
French, verb/ka.naʁ.de/
canarder is spelled C-A-N-A-R-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Canarder is a French verb meaning “to snipe at someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Viser et tirer d’un lieu où l’on est à couvert pour lancer des projectiles sur quelqu'un”.
What does canarder mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto snipe at someone
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Viser et tirer d’un lieu où l’on est à couvert pour lancer des projectiles sur quelqu'un. 2. Tirer un son discordant ; faire un couac. 3. Plonger le nez dans la mer et recevoir des lames sur l’avant, pour un bateau. 4. Photographier rapidement et de manière répétée.
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 canarder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- canardant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- canardé participle past
- canarde first-person indicative present
- canardes indicative present second-person
- canardons first-person indicative plural
- canardez indicative plural present
- canardent indicative plural present
- canardais first-person imperfect indicative
- canardait imperfect indicative singular
- canardions first-person imperfect indicative
- canardiez imperfect indicative plural
- canardaient imperfect indicative plural
- canardai first-person historic indicative
- canardas historic indicative past
- canarda historic indicative past
- canardâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canarder?
- /ka.naʁ.de/
- \ka.naʁ.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is canarder in French?
canarder appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).