baver
French, verb/ba.ve/
baver is spelled B-A-V-E-R (5 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,592nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baver is a French verb meaning “to drool, to slobber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Laisser échapper de la bave”.
What does baver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to drool, to slobber
- 2
to leak
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Laisser échapper de la bave. 2. Médire de quelqu’un. 3. Montrer son désir, ses envies avec outrance. 4. Pour un dessin, dépasser des traits de contour pour une couleur de remplissage, ou bien laisser des traces d'encre fraîche accidentelles sur une feuille.
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 baver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bavant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bavé participle past
- bave first-person indicative present
- baves indicative present second-person
- bavons first-person indicative plural
- bavez indicative plural present
- bavent indicative plural present
- bavais first-person imperfect indicative
- bavait imperfect indicative singular
- bavions first-person imperfect indicative
- baviez imperfect indicative plural
- bavaient imperfect indicative plural
- bavai first-person historic indicative
- bavas historic indicative past
- bava historic indicative past
- bavâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baver?
- /ba.ve/
- \ba.ve\
- [ba.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to baver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baver in French?
baver appears 1.4 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).