palourde
French, noun/pa.luʁd/
palourde is spelled P-A-L-O-U-R-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 89,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palourde is a French feminine noun meaning “clam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Coquillage marin, bivalve, comestible”.
What does palourde mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineclam
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Coquillage marin, bivalve, comestible.
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 palourde
- palourdes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palourde?
- /pa.luʁd/
- \pa.luʁd\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to palourde
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is palourde in French?
palourde appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).