Are you a game player? On this page you’ll find a complete list of French vocabulary covering words for both board games and card games. Interestingly, the word for chess is échecs, which looks like checkers. The word for checkers is jeu de dames.
People & basic words
- darts les fléchettes
- dice le dé
- game le jeu
- j’ai gagné! I won!
- le pari bet
- looser le perdant
- move le coup
- player le joueur
- point le point
- score la marque
- target la cible
- winner le gagnant
Card games
- ace l’as
- bishop le fou
- card game le jeu de cartes
- cards les cartes
- club le trèfle
- diamond le carreau
- heart le cœur
- jack le valet
- joker le joker
- king le roi
- pawn le pion
- queen la dame
- queen la dame
- spade le pique
Board games
- backgammon le trictrac
- board games les jeux de société
- checkers / draughts les dames
- chess les échecs
- chessboard l’échiquier
- dominos les dominos
- king le roi
- knight le cavalier
- monopoly le monopoly
- rook le tour
- scrabble le scrabble
- tile / scrabble piece la pièce
Verbs
- to deal (cards) donner
- to lose the game perdre le jeu
- to play a game jouer un jeu
- to play jouer
- to shuffle (cards) battre
- to win the game gagner le jeu
Related lessons:
- jouer conjugation
- jouer usage and example sentences
- French hobbies vocabulary
- French sports vocabulary
More resources:
- French card playing vocabulary (Wiki page)
- French boar game glossary (French website)
