hourd
French, noun/uʁ/
hourd is spelled H-O-U-R-D (5 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hourd is a French masculine noun meaning “hoarding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Estrade, échafaudage”.
What does hourd mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehoarding
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Estrade, échafaudage. 2. Galerie en bois placée au sommet et en surplomb d’une muraille de laquelle on peut lancer des projectiles sur l’ennemi depuis son plancher ajouré. À partir du XV^(ème) siècle, ils furent remplacés par les mâchicoulis en pierre.
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 hourd
- hourds plural
- ^((h aspiré))\uʁ\ singular plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hourd?
- /uʁ/
- ^((h aspiré))\uʁ\
- [uʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hourd
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hourd in French?
hourd appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).