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maboul

French, noun/ma.bul/

maboul is spelled M-A-B-O-U-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 82,784th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maboul is a French masculine noun meaning “nutcase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fou”.

What does maboul mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    colloquialcrazy

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialmasculinenutcase

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Fou.

noun: 1. Fou.

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 maboul

  • maboule feminine
  • mabouls masculine plural
  • maboules feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce maboul?

  • /ma.bul/
  • \ma.bul\
  • [ma.bul(ɘ)]

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

How common is maboul in French?

maboul appears about once in every 6 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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