vagabonder
French, verb/va.ɡa.bɔ̃.de/
vagabonder is spelled V-A-G-A-B-O-N-D-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 62,144th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vagabonder is a French verb meaning “to walk about, wander” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Être vagabond, faire le vagabond”.
What does vagabonder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to walk about, wander
- 2
to roam, wander, walk the earth
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Être vagabond, faire le vagabond. 2. Errer sans but. 3. Errer ; voyager sans cesse.
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 vagabonder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vagabondant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vagabondé participle past
- vagabonde first-person indicative present
- vagabondes indicative present second-person
- vagabondons first-person indicative plural
- vagabondez indicative plural present
- vagabondent indicative plural present
- vagabondais first-person imperfect indicative
- vagabondait imperfect indicative singular
- vagabondions first-person imperfect indicative
- vagabondiez imperfect indicative plural
- vagabondaient imperfect indicative plural
- vagabondai first-person historic indicative
- vagabondas historic indicative past
- vagabonda historic indicative past
- vagabondâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vagabonder?
- /va.ɡa.bɔ̃.de/
- \va.ɡa.bɔ̃.de\
- [va.ɡa.bɔ̃.d̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vagabonder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vagabonder in French?
vagabonder appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).