clochard

Other forms of clochard

plural

clochards·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clochard

What does clochard mean?

clochard means "a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support".

How many syllables are in clochard?

clochard has 2 syllables and divides as clo-chard under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for clochard?

Close synonyms include vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clochard a common word?

clochard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.