farandole
noun
farandole is a noun meaning “A lively chain dance in 6/8 time, of Provençal origin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-A-N-D-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farandole is farandoles.
What does farandole mean?
noun
- 1
A lively chain dance in 6/8 time, of Provençal origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farandole
- farandoles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farandole?
Farandole appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
Farandole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a lively chain dance:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | farandole |
| German | Farandole |
| Spanish | farandola |
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 farandole come from?
From French farandole, from Occitan farandola.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).