fabliau
French, noun/fa.bli.jo/
fabliau is a French masculine noun meaning “fabliau” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de conte en vers, plaisant et satirique, usité dans la littérature du moyen-âge”.
What does fabliau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefabliau
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de conte en vers, plaisant et satirique, usité dans la littérature du moyen-âge.
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 fabliau
- fabliaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fabliau?
- /fa.bli.jo/
- \fa.bli.jo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fabliau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fabliau in French?
fabliau appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).