bâillonner
French, verb/ba.jɔ.ne/
bâillonner is spelled B-Â-I-L-L-O-N-N-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 68,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bâillonner is a French verb meaning “to gag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre un bâillon à”.
What does bâillonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to gag
- 2
to muzzle
- 3
to silence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre un bâillon à. 2. Fermer en dehors avec une pièce de bois, en parlant d’une porte. 3. Restreindre à l’excès la liberté de parole.
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 bâillonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bâillonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bâillonné participle past
- bâillonne first-person indicative present
- bâillonnes indicative present second-person
- bâillonnons first-person indicative plural
- bâillonnez indicative plural present
- bâillonnent indicative plural present
- bâillonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- bâillonnait imperfect indicative singular
- bâillonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- bâillonniez imperfect indicative plural
- bâillonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- bâillonnai first-person historic indicative
- bâillonnas historic indicative past
- bâillonna historic indicative past
- bâillonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bâillonner?
- /ba.jɔ.ne/
- /bɑ.jɔ.ne/
- \bɑ.jɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bâillonner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bâillonner in French?
bâillonner appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).