Similar words
poltron
poltron is more literary or intense; lâche is the everyday word, which also separately means "loose, slack" — both mean "cowardly."
Similar in other languages
Portuguese
covarde
covarde is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "cowardly."
Practice
1 What does lâche mean?
cowardly
2 Fill the gap: Fuir ainsi le combat est ___.
Full sentence: Fuir ainsi le combat est lâche. (Fleeing the fight like that is cowardly.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches lâche?
lâche: neutral register, common frequency, general domain, negative connotation.