blâmer
French, verb/bla.me/
blâmer is spelled B-L-Â-M-E-R (6 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blâmer is a French verb meaning “criticize, pass censure on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Reprocher ; imputer la faute d'une situation déplorable à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose”.
What does blâmer mean in English?
verb
- 1
criticize, pass censure on
- 2
reprimand
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Reprocher ; imputer la faute d'une situation déplorable à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose. 2. Donner un blâme
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 blâmer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- blâmant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- blâmé participle past
- blâme first-person indicative present
- blâmes indicative present second-person
- blâmons first-person indicative plural
- blâmez indicative plural present
- blâment indicative plural present
- blâmais first-person imperfect indicative
- blâmait imperfect indicative singular
- blâmions first-person imperfect indicative
- blâmiez imperfect indicative plural
- blâmaient imperfect indicative plural
- blâmai first-person historic indicative
- blâmas historic indicative past
- blâma historic indicative past
- blâmâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blâmer?
- /bla.me/
- /blɑ.me/
- \blɑ.me\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blâmer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blâmer in French?
blâmer appears 4.2 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).