biguine
French, noun
biguine is spelled B-I-G-U-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Biguine is a French feminine noun meaning “biguine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of biguiner. With an accent, biguiné is a different word: “past participle of biguiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Danse et musique guadeloupéenne, née au XIXᵉ siècle”.
What does biguine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebiguine
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of biguiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Danse et musique guadeloupéenne, née au XIXᵉ siècle.
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 biguine
- biguines plural
- biguinée feminine
- biguinés masculine plural
- biguinées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is biguine in French?
biguine appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).