tadorne
French, noun/ta.dɔʁn/
tadorne is spelled T-A-D-O-R-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 47 million words in written French, the 216,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tadorne is a French masculine noun meaning “shelduck (waterfowl)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Une des espèces de grands oiseaux palmipèdes de la famille des anatidés, intermédiaires entre les oies…”.
What does tadorne mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshelduck (waterfowl)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Une des espèces de grands oiseaux palmipèdes de la famille des anatidés, intermédiaires entre les oies (faible dimorphisme sexuel entre mâles et femelles, participation du mâle aux soins à la couvée) et les canards (morphologie, voix) et appartenant au genre Tadorna.
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 tadorne
- tadornes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tadorne?
- /ta.dɔʁn/
- \ta.dɔʁn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tadorne
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tadorne in French?
tadorne appears about once in every 47 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).