larder

/\laʁ.de\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

larder is aFrenchverb. It means: Piquer une pièce alimentaire (un morceau de viande par exemple) de morceaux de lard avant la cuisson, parfois en les disposant de manière à faire un dessin. Pronounced \laʁ.de\.

Key facts for larder
PropertyValue
Headwordlarder
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\laʁ.de\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

larder is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for larder is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \laʁ.de\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for larder in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is larder, spelled L-A-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Piquer une pièce alimentaire (un morceau de viande par exemple) de morceaux de lard avant la cuisson, parfois en les disposant de manière à faire un dessin.
  2. 2
    Transpercer, notamment à l’arme blanche.
  3. 3
    Planter de proche en proche des clous dans un bois pour y faciliter la tenue du plâtre qu’on y appliquera.
  4. 4
    Coudre une ralingue au bord d’une voile en faisant passer le fil entre les torons.
  5. 5
    En parlant d’une carte à jouer, l’introduire secrètement dans un paquet dans un but de tricherie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "larder"?
"larder" is spelled L-A-R-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \laʁ.de\.
What does "larder" mean?
As a verb, "larder" means: Piquer une pièce alimentaire (un morceau de viande par exemple) de morceaux de lard avant la cuisson, parfois en les disposant de manière à faire un dessin.
How do you pronounce "larder"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "larder" is \laʁ.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "larder" come from?
"larder" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.