allemande
noun, verb
allemande is a noun meaning “A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-L-E-M-A-N-D-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of allemande is allemandes.
What does allemande mean?
noun
- 1
A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
verb
- 1
To perform this dance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of allemande
- allemandes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- allemanding participle, present
- allemanded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is allemande?
Allemande appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Allemande in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense instrumental dance form:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | alemanda |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does allemande come from?
Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).