blé
French, noun/ble/
blé is spelled B-L-É (3 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,439th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blé is a French masculine noun meaning “wheat, corn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Terme générique qui désigne plusieurs céréales appartenant au genre Triticum. Ce sont des plantes annuelles…”.
What does blé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewheat, corn
- 2
masculineslangdough, cash
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Terme générique qui désigne plusieurs céréales appartenant au genre Triticum. Ce sont des plantes annuelles de la famille des graminées ou Poacées, cultivées dans de très nombreux pays pour obtenir de la farine permettant de faire du pain. 2. Couleur jaune chaud légèrement brillant. #E8D630 3. Grain produit par ces plantes. 4. Champ de blé.
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 blé
- blés plural
- bled archaic
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blé?
- /ble/
- \ble\
- [lə ble]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blé in French?
blé appears 13 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).