blongios
French, noun/blɔ̃.ʒjɔs/
blongios is spelled B-L-O-N-G-I-O-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blongios is a French masculine noun meaning “bittern (bird of the family Ardeidae and genus Botaurus, specifically those species formerly in the genus Ixobrychus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does blongios mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebittern (bird of the family Ardeidae and genus Botaurus, specifically those species formerly in the genus Ixobrychus)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How do you pronounce blongios?
- /blɔ̃.ʒjɔs/
- /blɔ̃.ʒjo/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blongios
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blongios in French?
blongios appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).