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balourdé

French, adjective

balourdé is spelled B-A-L-O-U-R-D-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written French, the 223,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balourdé is a French adjective meaning “unbalanced” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, balourde is a different word: “feminine singular of balourd”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est muni d'un balourd”.

What does balourdé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    unbalanced

  2. 2

    vibratory

adjective

as balourde
  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of balourd

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Femme grossière et maladroite.

adjective: 1. Qui est muni d'un balourd.

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 balourdé

  • balourdée feminine
  • balourdés masculine plural
  • balourdées feminine plural
  • balourdes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to balourdé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is balourdé in French?

balourdé appears about once in every 50 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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