French Vocabulary for Card and Board Games

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

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More resources:

French card playing vocabulary (Wiki page)
French boar game glossary (French website)

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