bubon
French, noun/by.bɔ̃/
bubon is spelled B-U-B-O-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 190,022nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bubon is a French masculine noun meaning “bubo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tumeur inflammatoire qui a son siège dans les glandes lymphatiques sous-cutanées et qui se forme plus…”.
What does bubon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebubo
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tumeur inflammatoire qui a son siège dans les glandes lymphatiques sous-cutanées et qui se forme plus particulièrement aux glandes de l’aine, de l’aisselle ou du cou.
noun: 1. Grand-duc, rapace du genre Bubo.
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 bubon
- bubons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bubon?
- /by.bɔ̃/
- \by.bɔ̃\
- [bybɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bubon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bubon in French?
bubon appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).