couard
French, noun/kwaʁ/
couard is spelled C-O-U-A-R-D (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 78,246th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Couard is a French masculine noun meaning “coward” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poltron, lâche”.
What does couard mean in English?
adjective
- 1
archaiccowardly
noun
- 1
masculinecoward
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est poltron, qui n’a pas de courage.
noun: 1. Poltron, lâche.
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 couard
- couarde feminine
- couards masculine plural
- couardes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce couard?
- /kwaʁ/
- \kwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to couard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is couard in French?
couard appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).