mouchard

M3O1U1C3H4A1R1D2
UK/ˈmuːʃɑː/US/muˈʃɑɹd/

noun

An undercover investigator; a police spy, especially in a French-speaking country.

OriginFrench mouchard →
Scrabble 16
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

mouchard1

nounmouchard (plural mouchards)

plural mouchards

  1. An undercover investigator; a police spy, especially in a French-speaking country.
  2. nauticalAn inverted compass hanging above the captain's bed

Mouchard2

proper noun
  1. A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

Origin

  1. Frenchmouchard
  2. Englishmouchard

Borrowed from French mouchard, from mouche (“a fly”).

More words from French

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

mouchard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouchard

MLA

“mouchard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouchard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mouchard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouchard.

Source: mouchard on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.