pétaudière
French, noun/pe.to.djɛʁ/
pétaudière is spelled P-É-T-A-U-D-I-È-R-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pétaudière is a French feminine noun meaning “bedlam, bear garden (scene of tumult and disorder)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assemblée où il n’y a pas d’ordre, lieu où chacun veut commander. → voir anomie, confusion et désordre”.
What does pétaudière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebedlam, bear garden (scene of tumult and disorder)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Assemblée où il n’y a pas d’ordre, lieu où chacun veut commander. → voir anomie, confusion et désordre
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 pétaudière
- pétaudières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pétaudière?
- /pe.to.djɛʁ/
- \pe.to.djɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pétaudière
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pétaudière in French?
pétaudière appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).