bagarre
French, noun
bagarre is spelled B-A-G-A-R-R-E (7 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bagarre is a French feminine noun meaning “brawl, fight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bagarré is a different word: “past participle of bagarrer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rencontre fortuite d'équipages, embarras de voitures”.
What does bagarre mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebrawl, fight
verb
- 1
past participle of bagarrer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rencontre fortuite d'équipages, embarras de voitures. 2. Tumulte, mêlée bruyante et désordonnée. 3. Querelle, rixe, lutte, opération difficile où se trouve impliqué un nombre limité d'antagonistes.
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 bagarre
- bagarres plural
- bagarrée feminine
- bagarrés masculine plural
- bagarrées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bagarre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bagarre in French?
bagarre appears 7.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).