lard
French, noun/laʁ/
lard is spelled L-A-R-D (4 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lard is a French masculine noun meaning “bacon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couche de graisse qui se trouve entre la peau et la chair du porc”.
What does lard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebacon
- 2
masculinelard, fat
faire du lard
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Couche de graisse qui se trouve entre la peau et la chair du porc. 2. Morceaux de la chair de porc où la graisse domine. 3. Partie grasse qui est entre la peau et la chair de la baleine, du marsouin, et d’autres gros cétacés de même espèce. 4. Friandise molle de forme allongée du genre guimauve composée de deux bandes de couleur rose et blanche.
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 lard
- lards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lard?
- /laʁ/
- \laʁ\
- [laʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lard in French?
lard appears 2.8 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).