richard
French, noun/ʁi.ʃaʁ/
richard is spelled R-I-C-H-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears 37 times per million words in written French, the 2,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Richard is a French masculine noun meaning “rich man, moneybags, capitalist, bourgeois” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui est riche”.
What does richard mean in English?
noun
- 1
derogatoryinformalmasculinerich man, moneybags, capitalist, bourgeois
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui a beaucoup de fortune, qui est riche.
noun: 1. Coléoptère du genre cucujus, famille des Cucujidae.
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 richard
- richards plural
- richarde feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce richard?
- /ʁi.ʃaʁ/
- \ʁi.ʃaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to richard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is richard in French?
richard appears 37 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).