brûlant
French, adjective
brûlant is a French adjective meaning “burning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of brûler. Without its accent, brulant is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of brûlant”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est trop chaud pour être supporté ; qui est extrêmement chaud au toucher”.
What does brûlant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
burning
verb
- 1
present participle of brûler
adjective
- 1
post-1990 spelling of brûlant
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est trop chaud pour être supporté ; qui est extrêmement chaud au toucher. 2. Qui exacerbe les émotions. 3. Qui est controversé.
noun: 1. Café. 2. Pyrosis, sensation de brûlure au niveau de l’œsophage.
adjective: 1. Qui est trop chaud pour être supporté ; qui est extrêmement chaud au toucher. 2. Qui exacerbe les émotions. 3. Qui est controversé.
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 brûlant
- brûlante feminine
- brûlants masculine plural
- brûlantes feminine plural
- brulant alternative
- brulante feminine
- brulants masculine plural
- brulantes feminine plural
- brûlant
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to brûlant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is brûlant in French?
brûlant appears 3.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).