balourdise
French, noun/ba.luʁ.diz/
balourdise is spelled B-A-L-O-U-R-D-I-S-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balourdise is a French feminine noun meaning “clumsiness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chose faite ou dite sans esprit, ou mal à propos”.
What does balourdise mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineclumsiness
- 2
feminineblunder
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chose faite ou dite sans esprit, ou mal à propos. 2. Caractère 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 balourdise
- balourdises plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balourdise?
- /ba.luʁ.diz/
- \ba.luʁ.diz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is balourdise in French?
balourdise appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).