bâcler
French, verb/ba.kle/
bâcler is spelled B-Â-C-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 77,345th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bâcler is a French verb meaning “to bang out (a task), to botch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amarrer”.
What does bâcler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bang out (a task), to botch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Amarrer. 2. Boucler. 3. Arrêter la navigation. 4. Fermer une porte ou une fenêtre par-derrière avec une bâcle ou autre chose.
verb: 1. Variante de bâcler.
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 bâcler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bâclant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bâclé participle past
- bâcle first-person indicative present
- bâcles indicative present second-person
- bâclons first-person indicative plural
- bâclez indicative plural present
- bâclent indicative plural present
- bâclais first-person imperfect indicative
- bâclait imperfect indicative singular
- bâclions first-person imperfect indicative
- bâcliez imperfect indicative plural
- bâclaient imperfect indicative plural
- bâclai first-person historic indicative
- bâclas historic indicative past
- bâcla historic indicative past
- bâclâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bâcler?
- /ba.kle/
- /bɑ.kle/
- \bɑ.kle\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bâcler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bâcler in French?
bâcler appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).