Briard
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A large, strongly built French herding dog with a long, slightly wavy coat, typically black or fawn in colour.
“The briard bounded across the farmyard to round up the scattered sheep.”
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Ends in -ARD, a pattern shared with several other six-letter words, contains no repeated letters
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