balourd
French, noun/ba.luʁ/
balourd is spelled B-A-L-O-U-R-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 70,496th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balourd is a French masculine noun meaning “dimwit, oaf” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne grossière et maladroite”.
What does balourd mean in English?
adjective
- 1
narrow-minded
- 2
awkward
- 3
clumsy; oafish
noun
- 1
masculinedimwit, oaf
noun
- 1
masculinean unbalanced, rotating load (especially one that vibrates)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Grossier et maladroit.
noun: 1. Personne grossière et maladroite.
noun: 1. Répartition asymétrique des masses qui entraîne des vibrations sur une pièce tournante.
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 balourd
- balourde feminine
- balourds masculine plural
- balourdes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balourd?
- /ba.luʁ/
- \ba.luʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to balourd
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balourd in French?
balourd appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).