blondir
French, verb/blɔ̃.diʁ/
blondir is spelled B-L-O-N-D-I-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written French, the 239,448th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blondir is a French verb meaning “to dye blond” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rissoler légèrement pour colorer à peine”.
What does blondir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dye blond
- 2
to brown (cook slightly to give some color)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rissoler légèrement pour colorer à peine. 2. Ajouter de la farine à un corps gras chaud, jusqu’à coloration dorée et constitution d’un roux blond. 3. Rendre blond. 4. Devenir blond.
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 blondir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- blondissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- blondi participle past
- blondis first-person indicative present
- blondit indicative present singular
- blondissons first-person indicative plural
- blondissez indicative plural present
- blondissent indicative plural present
- blondissais first-person imperfect indicative
- blondissait imperfect indicative singular
- blondissions first-person imperfect indicative
- blondissiez imperfect indicative plural
- blondissaient imperfect indicative plural
- blondîmes first-person historic indicative
- blondîtes historic indicative past
- blondirent historic indicative past
- blondirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce blondir?
- /blɔ̃.diʁ/
- \blɔ̃.diʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is blondir in French?
blondir appears about once in every 58 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).