bajoyer
French, noun/ba.ʒwa.je/
bajoyer is spelled B-A-J-O-Y-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 83 million words in written French, the 285,390th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bajoyer is a French masculine noun meaning “a sturdy wall of a river or canal either next to a bridge or in a lock” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mur qui consolide les berges d'une rivière aux abords d'un pont”.
What does bajoyer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea sturdy wall of a river or canal either next to a bridge or in a lock
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mur qui consolide les berges d'une rivière aux abords d'un pont. 2. Mur latéral d'une chambre d'écluse ou d'un bassin de radoub, d'une forme ou d'une cale sèche.
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 bajoyer
- bajoyers plural
- bajoyère
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bajoyer?
- /ba.ʒwa.je/
- \ba.ʒwa.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bajoyer in French?
bajoyer appears about once in every 83 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).