beauf
French, noun/bof/
beauf is spelled B-E-A-U-F (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beauf is a French masculine noun meaning “brother-in-law” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Beau-frère”.
What does beauf mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineslangbrother-in-law
- 2
colloquialderogatorymasculineboor, yokel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Beau-frère. 2. Personne vulgaire, étroite d’esprit, inculte, de mauvais goût.
adjective: 1. devenu Étroit d’esprit, conformiste à l’extrême, vulgaire.
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 beauf
- beaufs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beauf?
- /bof/
- /bɔf/
- \bof\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beauf
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beauf in French?
beauf appears 1.8 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).