blanchir
French, verb/blɑ̃.ʃiʁ/
blanchir is spelled B-L-A-N-C-H-I-R (8 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 20,080th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blanchir is a French verb meaning “to launder, wash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre blanc, couvrir d’une couche blanche”.
What does blanchir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to launder, wash
Blanchir du linge.
- 2
to make white; to whiten
La neige a blanchi les toits.
- 3
to grow or become white
Les cheveux blanchissent avec l’âge.
- 4
to blanch or bleach
Elle a blanchi quand elle a entendu la nouvelle.
- 5
to launder
- 6
to whitewash (to cover over errors or bad actions)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre blanc, couvrir d’une couche blanche. 2. Agir chimiquement pour qu’une matière reflète un blanc éclatant. 3. Laver, nettoyer les linges blancs. 4. Porter à ébullition une viande ou des légumes dans de l’eau salée, avant de les rafraîchir à l’eau froide et de les cuisiner autrement.
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 blanchir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- blanchissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- blanchi participle past
- blanchis first-person indicative present
- blanchit indicative present singular
- blanchissons first-person indicative plural
- blanchissez indicative plural present
- blanchissent indicative plural present
- blanchissais first-person imperfect indicative
- blanchissait imperfect indicative singular
- blanchissions first-person imperfect indicative
- blanchissiez imperfect indicative plural
- blanchissaient imperfect indicative plural
- blanchîmes first-person historic indicative
- blanchîtes historic indicative past
- blanchirent historic indicative past
- blanchirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blanchir?
- /blɑ̃.ʃiʁ/
- \blɑ̃.ʃiʁ\
- [bl̪ɑ̃.ʃiʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blanchir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blanchir in French?
blanchir appears 2.1 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).