boursouflé
French, adjective
boursouflé is spelled B-O-U-R-S-O-U-F-L-É (10 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 95,695th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boursouflé is a French adjective meaning “blistered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of boursoufler. Without its accent, boursoufle is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enflé, gonflé à l'extrême”.
What does boursouflé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
blistered
- 2
puffy, bloated
verb
- 1
past participle of boursoufler
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Enflé, gonflé à l'extrême. 2. Se dit figurément d’une manière pompeuse et vide d’écrire, de parler.
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 boursouflé
- boursouflée feminine
- boursouflés masculine plural
- boursouflées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to boursouflé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is boursouflé in French?
boursouflé appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).