babtou
French, noun/bab.tu/
babtou is spelled B-A-B-T-O-U (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,148th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Babtou is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of toubab (“white person”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Blanc, occidental”.
What does babtou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of toubab (“white person”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Blanc, occidental.
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 babtou
- babtous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce babtou?
- /bab.tu/
- \bab.tu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is babtou in French?
babtou appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).