bêtisier
French, noun/bɛ.ti.zje/
bêtisier is spelled B-Ê-T-I-S-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 65,791st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bêtisier is a French masculine noun meaning “bloopers; a collection of farcical or comical stories or moments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Collection de textes comiques par leur ridicule”.
What does bêtisier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebloopers; a collection of farcical or comical stories or moments
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Collection de textes comiques par leur ridicule. 2. Collection d’extraits d’enregistrements ratés, de bévues, gaffes et d’autres situations comiques.
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 bêtisier
- bêtisiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bêtisier?
- /bɛ.ti.zje/
- /be.ti.zje/
- \be.ti.zje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bêtisier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bêtisier in French?
bêtisier appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).