sardine
French, noun/saʁ.din/
sardine is spelled S-A-R-D-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sardine is a French feminine noun meaning “sardine, pilchard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Poisson de mer au corps fuselé d'une vingtaine de centimètres de long, au dos bleuté et au ventre argenté…”.
What does sardine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesardine, pilchard
- 2
femininetent peg, stake
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Poisson de mer au corps fuselé d'une vingtaine de centimètres de long, au dos bleuté et au ventre argenté, apparenté au hareng. 2. Broche métallique servant à fixer une tente de camping au sol. 3. Barrette indiquant le grade sur les épaulettes ou sur les manches d’un uniforme. 4. Traces semi-circulaires laissées par le bord d'une taloche, d'une lisseuse sur un enduit.
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 sardine
- sardines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sardine?
- /saʁ.din/
- \saʁ.din\
- [yn̪ saʁ.d̪in̪]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sardine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sardine in French?
sardine appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).