beffroi
French, noun/bɛ.fʁwa/
beffroi is spelled B-E-F-F-R-O-I (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,802nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beffroi is a French masculine noun meaning “belfry, bell tower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Édifice mobile en bois qui servait à prendre d’assaut des fortifications”.
What does beffroi mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebelfry, bell tower
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Édifice mobile en bois qui servait à prendre d’assaut des fortifications. 2. Tour ou clocher servant à faire le guet et où se trouvait une cloche pour sonner l’alarme, campanile. 3. Cloche du beffroi. 4. Charpente qui porte les cloches.
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 beffroi
- beffrois plural
- béfroi dated
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beffroi?
- /bɛ.fʁwa/
- /be.fʁwa/
- \be.fʁwa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to beffroi
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beffroi in French?
beffroi appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).