chicard
French, noun/ʃi.kaʁ/
chicard is spelled C-H-I-C-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 76 million words in written French, the 273,192nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chicard is a French masculine noun meaning “a chic person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personnage grotesque dansant dans les bals masqués”.
What does chicard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea chic person
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Caractérise ce qui avait rapport avec les chicards. Pas de danse chicard.
noun: 1. Personnage grotesque dansant dans les bals masqués.
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 chicard
- chicards plural
- chicarde singular feminine
- chicardes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chicard?
- /ʃi.kaʁ/
- \ʃi.kaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chicard in French?
chicard appears about once in every 76 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).