balado

\ba.la.do\

/\ba.la.do\/ noun

The verdict

“balado” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Émission sonore ou audiovisuelle, produite comme telle ou constituant l’enregistrement d’une émission d’abord diffusée sur une chaîne, mise à la disposition du public sur Internet afin d’être écout...

Corpus desk

Index FR-balado · balado · French

balado · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for balado
PropertyValue
Headwordbalado
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.la.do\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « balado » en français

baladon'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

balado is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.la.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Émission sonore ou audiovisuelle, produite comme telle ou constituant l’enregistrement d’une émission d’abord diffusée sur une chaîne, mise à la disposition du public sur Internet afin d’être écout...".

balado has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is balado, spelled B-A-L-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Émission sonore ou audiovisuelle, produite comme telle ou constituant l’enregistrement d’une émission d’abord diffusée sur une chaîne, mise à la disposition du public sur Internet afin d’être écoutée à volonté.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how balado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je me rends compte qu’au Québec, et un peu partout aussi d’ailleurs, ce qui fait école est cette notion de longue entrevue, disponible en balado.

Synonyms

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balado"?
"balado" is spelled B-A-L-A-D-O. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.la.do\.
What does "balado" mean?
As a noun, "balado" means: Émission sonore ou audiovisuelle, produite comme telle ou constituant l’enregistrement d’une émission d’abord diffusée sur une chaîne, mise à la disposition du public sur Internet afin d’être écout...
How do you pronounce "balado"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balado" is \ba.la.do\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "balado" come from?
"balado" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list