blafard
French, adjective/bla.faʁ/
blafard is spelled B-L-A-F-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blafard is a French adjective meaning “pale, wan, pallid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est d’une couleur ou d’un éclat pâle, terne”.
What does blafard mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pale, wan, pallid
Near-synonyms: hâve, blême
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est d’une couleur ou d’un éclat pâle, terne.
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 blafard
- blafarde feminine
- blafards masculine plural
- blafardes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blafard?
- /bla.faʁ/
- \bla.faʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blafard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blafard in French?
blafard 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).