mitard
French, noun/mi.taʁ/
mitard is spelled M-I-T-A-R-D (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mitard is a French masculine noun meaning “hole (place where a prisoner is kept in solitary confinement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cachot, cellule du quartier disciplinaire où les personnes détenues en prison sont punies, généralement à…”.
What does mitard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehole (place where a prisoner is kept in solitary confinement)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cachot, cellule du quartier disciplinaire où les personnes détenues en prison sont punies, généralement à l’écart des autres.
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 mitard
- mitards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mitard?
- /mi.taʁ/
- \mi.taʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mitard in French?
mitard appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).