fauchard
French, noun\fo.ʃaʁ\
fauchard is spelled F-A-U-C-H-A-R-D (8 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written French, the 194,108th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fauchard is a French masculine noun meaning “fauchard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arme d’hast au tranchant convexe dérivée de la faux de guerre, utilisée essentiellement au Moyen Âge”.
What does fauchard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefauchard
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Arme d’hast au tranchant convexe dérivée de la faux de guerre, utilisée essentiellement au Moyen Âge. 2. Sorte de serpe, de gouet, servant à couper les broussailles, il possédait deux cotés tranchants.
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 fauchard
- fauchards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fauchard?
- \fo.ʃaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fauchard in French?
fauchard appears about once in every 37 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).