aboyant
French, adjective/a.bwa.jɑ̃/
aboyant is spelled A-B-O-Y-A-N-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written French, the 103,520th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aboyant is a French adjective meaning “barking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of aboyer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui aboie”.
What does aboyant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
barking
verb
- 1
present participle of aboyer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui aboie. 2. Qui pousse des cris importuns, des injures, des invectives.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aboyant
- aboyante feminine
- aboyants masculine plural
- aboyantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aboyant?
- /a.bwa.jɑ̃/
- \a.bwa.jɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aboyant in French?
aboyant appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).