Bijou
German, noun/biˈʒuː/
Bijou is spelled B-I-J-O-U (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 86,281st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bijou is a German masculine noun meaning “jewel; piece of jewelry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “kostbarer (zur Zierde am Körper getragener) Gegenstand”.
What does Bijou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineneuterjewel; piece of jewelry
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. kostbarer (zur Zierde am Körper getragener) Gegenstand
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Bijou
- Bijous genitive
- Bijoux nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Bijou?
- /biˈʒuː/
- [biˈʒuː]
- [ˈbiʒu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Bijou in German?
Bijou appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).