baguenauder
French, verb/baɡ.no.de/
baguenauder is spelled B-A-G-U-E-N-A-U-D-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baguenauder is a French verb meaning “to stroll, amble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “S’amuser à des choses vaines et frivoles comme les enfants qui font claquer les baguenaudes en les crevant”.
What does baguenauder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stroll, amble
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. S’amuser à des choses vaines et frivoles comme les enfants qui font claquer les baguenaudes en les crevant. 2. Se promener ; flâner sans but précis.
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 baguenauder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- baguenaudant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- baguenaudé participle past
- baguenaude first-person indicative present
- baguenaudes indicative present second-person
- baguenaudons first-person indicative plural
- baguenaudez indicative plural present
- baguenaudent indicative plural present
- baguenaudais first-person imperfect indicative
- baguenaudait imperfect indicative singular
- baguenaudions first-person imperfect indicative
- baguenaudiez imperfect indicative plural
- baguenaudaient imperfect indicative plural
- baguenaudai first-person historic indicative
- baguenaudas historic indicative past
- baguenauda historic indicative past
- baguenaudâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baguenauder?
- /baɡ.no.de/
- \baɡ.no.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is baguenauder in French?
baguenauder appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).