claude
French, noun\klod\
claude is spelled C-L-A-U-D-E (6 letters) and appears 49 times per million words in written French, the 1,704th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Claude is a French masculine noun meaning “dummy; fool; imbecil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sot, imbécile”.
What does claude mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dumb; idiotic; sottish
noun
- 1
masculinedummy; fool; imbecil
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Stupide.
noun: 1. Sot, imbécile.
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 claude
- claudes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce claude?
- \klod\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is claude in French?
claude appears 49 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).