balé
Spanish, noun
balé is spelled B-A-L-É (4 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 27,124th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balé is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of ballet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular preterite indicative of balar. Without its accent, bale is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”.
What does balé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerarealternative spelling of ballet
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of balar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of balé
- balés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is balé in Spanish?
balé appears 1.5 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).