bavard
French, noun/ba.vaʁ/
bavard is spelled B-A-V-A-R-D (6 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bavard is a French masculine noun meaning “chatterbox (chatty person)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Homme qui parle beaucoup”.
What does bavard mean in English?
adjective
- 1
chatty, talkative, garrulous
Ces jeunots n'ont pas l'air du genre bavards.
noun
- 1
masculinechatterbox (chatty person)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a l’habitude de bavarder.
noun: 1. Homme qui parle beaucoup 2. Avocat. 3. Chabot commun, poisson des rivières et lacs bien oxygénés.
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 bavard
- bavarde feminine
- bavards masculine plural
- bavardes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bavard?
- /ba.vaʁ/
- \ba.vaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bavard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bavard in French?
bavard appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).