bazou
French, noun/ba.zu/
bazou is spelled B-A-Z-O-U (5 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bazou is a French masculine noun meaning “clunker (car)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vieille voiture ou voiture en mauvais état”.
What does bazou mean in English?
noun
- 1
Quebecinformalmasculineclunker (car)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vieille voiture ou voiture en mauvais état.
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 bazou
- bazous plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bazou?
- /ba.zu/
- \ba.zu\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bazou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bazou in French?
bazou appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).