bokmål
French, noun/buk.mɔl/
bokmål is spelled B-O-K-M-Å-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bokmål is a French masculine noun meaning “Bokmål (Norwegian written language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Une des deux formes écrites officielles du norvégien, construite à partir de différents dialectes norvégiens”.
What does bokmål mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineBokmål (Norwegian written language)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Une des deux formes écrites officielles du norvégien, construite à partir de différents dialectes norvégiens.
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.
How do you pronounce bokmål?
- /buk.mɔl/
- \buk.mɔl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bokmål in French?
bokmål appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).