chinchard
French, noun/ʃɛ̃.ʃaʁ/
chinchard is spelled C-H-I-N-C-H-A-R-D (9 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chinchard is a French masculine noun meaning “jack mackerel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de poisson osseux, marin et carnivore, carangidé du genre Trachurus, au corps fuselé, avec lignes…”.
What does chinchard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejack mackerel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de poisson osseux, marin et carnivore, carangidé du genre Trachurus, au corps fuselé, avec lignes latérales accessoires, aux opercules tachés.
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 chinchard
- chinchards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chinchard?
- /ʃɛ̃.ʃaʁ/
- \ʃɛ̃.ʃaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is chinchard in French?
chinchard 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).