gros lard

\ɡʁo laʁ\

/\ɡʁo laʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“gros lard” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne en surpoids voire obèse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gros-lard · gros lard · French

gros lard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for gros lard
PropertyValue
Headwordgros lard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡʁo laʁ\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “gros lard” sits in French frequency

gros lard falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gros lard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁo laʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne en surpoids voire obèse.".

Zero misspellings are on record for gros lard in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gros lard, spelled G-R-O-S- -L-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne en surpoids voire obèse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how gros lard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les autres, les grasses, ça vit aussi, mais à la manière des gros lards qui ont des bedaines de cinquante kilos sur leurs jambes, des vies pas intéressantes pour deux sous : ça rote, c’est orgueilleux de son appétit et ça fatigue le pauvre monde avec ses exigences de riche.
  2. J'allais descendre pour m'excuser mais, une fois de plus, un gros lard — qu'ont-ils après moi ? — s'est précipité les deux mains en avant comme pour tordre mon cou de poulet au milieu d'une avalanche de jurons que je ne compris pas : caproni, cornuto, bruto, sporci, merdoiolo !

This word in other languages

tubby(English)gordinflón(Español)Fettwanst(Deutsch)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gros lard"?
"gros lard" is spelled G-R-O-S- -L-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡʁo laʁ\.
What does "gros lard" mean?
As a noun, "gros lard" means: Personne en surpoids voire obèse.
How do you pronounce "gros lard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gros lard" is \ɡʁo laʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gros lard" come from?
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list