bijou
French, noun/bi.ʒu/
bijou is spelled B-I-J-O-U (5 letters) and appears 5.0 times per million words in written French, the 11,195th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bijou is a French masculine noun meaning “a piece of jewelry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit ouvrage de luxe d’un travail élégant et d’une matière précieuse, et qui sert de parure et d’ornement”.
What does bijou mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea piece of jewelry
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit ouvrage de luxe d’un travail élégant et d’une matière précieuse, et qui sert de parure et d’ornement. 2. Toute chose élégante et ornée. 3. Petite maison élégante et commode. 4. Enfant aimable et docile.
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 bijou
- bijoux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bijou?
- /bi.ʒu/
- \bi.ʒu\
- [bi.ʒu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bijou
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bijou in French?
bijou appears 5.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).