fard
French, noun/faʁ/
fard is spelled F-A-R-D (4 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fard is a French masculine noun meaning “make-up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enduit qu’on applique sur la peau ou une partie du visage pour la colorer ou pour la protéger”.
What does fard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemake-up
- 2
masculinedeception
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enduit qu’on applique sur la peau ou une partie du visage pour la colorer ou pour la protéger. 2. Déguisement, feinte, dissimulation.
noun: 1. Fard de l'avant : Ensemble du mât de misaine et du mât de beaupré. 2. Fard de l'arrière : Ensemble du mât d'artimon et du grand mât.
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 fard
- fards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fard?
- /faʁ/
- \faʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fard in French?
fard appears 1.0 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).