bigarré
French, adjective
bigarré is spelled B-I-G-A-R-R-É (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 78,246th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bigarré is a French adjective meaning “colourful, motley” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, bigarre is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Se dit d’un ensemble d’éléments disparates et tranchants qui manque d’harmonie”.
What does bigarré mean in English?
adjective
- 1
colourful, motley
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dit d’un ensemble d’éléments disparates et tranchants qui manque d’harmonie. 2. Qualifie des grès composés de grains de diverses couleurs et d'un ciment d'une autre couleur.
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 bigarré
- bigarrée feminine
- bigarrés masculine plural
- bigarrées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bigarré
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bigarré in French?
bigarré appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).