trouillard
French, noun/tʁu.jaʁ/
trouillard is spelled T-R-O-U-I-L-L-A-R-D (10 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 79,170th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trouillard is a French masculine noun meaning “chicken, yellowbelly, coward” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne peureuse, craintive, pétocharde”.
What does trouillard mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colloquialchicken, cowardly
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinechicken, yellowbelly, coward
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Peureux, craintif, pétochard.
noun: 1. Personne peureuse, craintive, pétocharde.
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 trouillard
- trouillarde feminine
- trouillards masculine plural
- trouillardes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trouillard?
- /tʁu.jaʁ/
- \tʁu.jɑʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trouillard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trouillard in French?
trouillard appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).