bâillant
French, adjective
bâillant is spelled B-Â-I-L-L-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bâillant is a French adjective meaning “yawning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of bâiller. Without its accent, baillant is a different word: “present participle of bailler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui bâille”.
What does bâillant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
yawning
verb
- 1
present participle of bâiller
verb
- 1
present participle of bailler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui bâille.
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 bâillant
- bâillante feminine
- bâillants masculine plural
- bâillantes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is bâillant in French?
bâillant appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).