badlands
French, noun/bad.lɑ̃d/
badlands is spelled B-A-D-L-A-N-D-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 92,562nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Badlands is a French masculine noun meaning “badlands” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Territoire au relief aride et très accidenté traversé de ravins creusés par l’eau de ruissellement et…”.
What does badlands mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebadlands
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Territoire au relief aride et très accidenté traversé de ravins creusés par l’eau de ruissellement et l’érosion dans un terrain marneux ou argileux.
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 badlands?
- /bad.lɑ̃d/
- \bad.lɑ̃d\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to badlands
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is badlands in French?
badlands appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).