balade
French, noun
balade is spelled B-A-L-A-D-E (6 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balade is a French feminine noun meaning “walk without purpose, stroll” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of balader. With an accent, baladé is a different word: “past participle of balader”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Promenade sans but précis”.
What does balade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininewalk without purpose, stroll
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of balader
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Promenade sans but précis. 2. Variante orthographique de ballade ^([1]).
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.
Forms of balade
- balades plural
- baladée feminine
- baladés masculine plural
- baladées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to balade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balade in French?
balade appears 10 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).