It’s a cinch, now that Spurling has cleared away a century’s worth of misapprehensions and canards.
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Canard
//kəˈnɑɹd//
Synonyms for "canard" (88 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (44)
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54 translations across 23 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- հերյուրանք noun (false or misleading report or story)
- սուտ լուր noun (false or misleading report or story)
Bulgarian
2 entries- измислица noun (false or misleading report or story)
- клевета noun (false or misleading report or story)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 鴨翼 /鸭翼 noun (control and stabilization surface)
- 鴨翼 /鸭翼 noun (winglike structure)
Czech
1 entries- kachna noun (false or misleading report or story)
Danish
1 entries- and noun (false or misleading report or story)
Dutch
1 entries- canard noun (false or misleading report or story)
Faroese
1 entries- blaðlygn noun (false or misleading report or story)
Finnish
4 entries- ankka noun (false or misleading report or story)
- canard-siipi noun (control and stabilization surface)
- etusiipi noun (control and stabilization surface)
- kanardi noun (type of aircraft)
French
4 entries- aileron noun (winglike structure)
- avion-canard noun (type of aircraft)
- canard noun (false or misleading report or story)
- canard noun (type of aircraft)
German
4 entries- Canard noun (type of aircraft)
- Ente noun (false or misleading report or story)
- Entenflugzeug noun (type of aircraft)
- Entenflügler noun (type of aircraft)
Hungarian
2 entries- kacsa noun (false or misleading report or story)
- kacsa elrendezésű repülőgép noun (type of aircraft)
Indonesian
2 entries- kanard noun (type of aircraft)
- kanard noun (winglike structure)
Korean
2 entries- 선미익기 noun (type of aircraft)
- 유언비어 noun (false or misleading report or story)
Macedonian
1 entries- патка noun (false or misleading report or story)
Malay
2 entries- kanard noun (type of aircraft)
- kanard noun (winglike structure)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- and noun (false or misleading report or story)
- avisand noun (false or misleading report or story)
- canardvinge noun (winglike structure)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- and noun (false or misleading report or story)
- avisand noun (false or misleading report or story)
Polish
1 entries- kaczka dziennikarska noun (false or misleading report or story)
Portuguese
3 entries- atoarda noun (false or misleading report or story)
- canard noun (type of aircraft)
- canard noun (winglike structure)
Russian
1 entries- у́тка noun (false or misleading report or story)
Spanish
4 entries- bulo noun (false or misleading report or story)
- canard noun (type of aircraft)
- filfa noun (false or misleading report or story)
- infundio noun (false or misleading report or story)
Swedish
3 entries- anka noun (false or misleading report or story)
- canardvinge noun (winglike structure)
- tidningsanka noun (false or misleading report or story)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tin vịt noun (false or misleading report or story)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport and we all live together happily inside a John Lennon song (Imagine there's no country...). This is a canard.
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[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.
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It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.