bézoard
French, noun/be.zɔ.aʁ/
bézoard is spelled B-É-Z-O-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bézoard is a French masculine noun meaning “bezoar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Concrétion qui se forme dans l’estomac (gastrolithe) ou les intestins (entérolithe) des humains et des…”.
What does bézoard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebezoar
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Concrétion qui se forme dans l’estomac (gastrolithe) ou les intestins (entérolithe) des humains et des ruminants et à laquelle on attribuait jadis de grandes vertus comme antidote et comme amulette.
noun: 1. Variante de bézoard.
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 bézoard
- bézoards plural
- besoard
- bezoard
- bezoards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bézoard?
- /be.zɔ.aʁ/
- \be.zɔ.aʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bézoard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bézoard in French?
bézoard appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).