chapardage
French, noun\ʃa.paʁ.daʒ\
chapardage is spelled C-H-A-P-A-R-D-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chapardage is a French masculine noun meaning “pilfering (petty theft)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de chaparder”.
What does chapardage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepilfering (petty theft)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de chaparder.
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 chapardage
- chapardages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chapardage?
- \ʃa.paʁ.daʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chapardage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chapardage in French?
chapardage appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).