bacchanales
French, noun/ba.ka.nal/
bacchanales is spelled B-A-C-C-H-A-N-A-L-E-S (11 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 89,528th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bacchanales is a French feminine noun meaning “plural of bacchanale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fêtes en l’honneur de Bacchus chez les Romains”.
What does bacchanales mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineplural of bacchanale
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fêtes en l’honneur de Bacchus chez les Romains.
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.
How do you pronounce bacchanales?
- /ba.ka.nal/
- \ba.ka.nal\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bacchanales
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bacchanales in French?
bacchanales appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).