mégarde
French, noun/me.ɡaʁd/
mégarde is spelled M-É-G-A-R-D-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mégarde is a French feminine noun meaning “oversight, inattention” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “(Rarement employé sans la préposition « par ») Erreur d’inattention, étourderie”.
What does mégarde mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininerareoversight, inattention
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Rarement employé sans la préposition « par ») Erreur d’inattention, étourderie.
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 mégarde
- mégardes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mégarde?
- /me.ɡaʁd/
- \me.ɡaʁd\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mégarde in French?
mégarde appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).