yard
French, noun/jaʁd/
yard is spelled Y-A-R-D (4 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yard is a French masculine noun meaning “yard (unit of length)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de la longueur (système impérial britannique), encore utilisée aux États-Unis, définie comme…”.
What does yard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyard (unit of length)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure de la longueur (système impérial britannique), encore utilisée aux États-Unis, définie comme exactement 0,9144 mètre depuis 1959. Le symbole : yd (international) ou vg (au Canada francophone). Anciennement appelé verge en France, notamment pour mesurer les tissus ; la verge est encore utilisée de nos jours au Canada, principalement dans le domaine du football nord-américain. 1 yard
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 yard
- yards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce yard?
- /jaʁd/
- \jaʁd\
- [jaʁd]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to yard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is yard in French?
yard appears 1.5 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).