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bridon

French, noun/bʁi.dɔ̃/

bridon is spelled B-R-I-D-O-N (6 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 164,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bridon is a French masculine noun meaning “snaffle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sorte de bride légère dont le mors brisé n’a pas de branches et qu’on emploie soit avec la bride, soit…”.

What does bridon mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesnaffle

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Sorte de bride légère dont le mors brisé n’a pas de branches et qu’on emploie soit avec la bride, soit quelquefois indépendamment d’elle. 2. Sorte de hachot à fer recourbé avec lequel, dans les Landes, on fait une ouverture aux pins pour en extraire la résine.

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 bridon

  • bridons plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce bridon?

  • /bʁi.dɔ̃/
  • \bʁi.dɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is bridon in French?

bridon appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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