placard
French, noun/pla.kaʁ/
placard is spelled P-L-A-C-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written French, the 7,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Placard is a French masculine noun meaning “a cupboard, cabinet or closet built against or into a wall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assemblage de menuiserie, qui s’élève au-dessus d’une porte et va ordinairement jusqu’au plafond”.
What does placard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea cupboard, cabinet or closet built against or into a wall
- 2
masculinean advertisement that is injurious, seditious or in otherwise bad taste
- 3
datedmasculinea placard
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Assemblage de menuiserie, qui s’élève au-dessus d’une porte et va ordinairement jusqu’au plafond. 2. Armoire pratiquée dans un enfoncement de mur. 3. Meuble ou petite pièce, fermé par une porte et destiné au rangement. 4. Ce qu’on plaque, ce qui est plaqué, placage.
noun: 1. Pancarte, affiche. 2. Pamphlet, écrit injurieux ou séditieux, qu’on rend public en l’affichant ou en le distribuant. 3. Épreuve imprimée d’un seul côté de la feuille permettant les corrections avant la mise en page.
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 placard
- placards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce placard?
- /pla.kaʁ/
- \pla.kaʁ\
- [plakaʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to placard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is placard in French?
placard appears 8.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).