balancer
French, verb/ba.lɑ̃.se/
balancer is spelled B-A-L-A-N-C-E-R (8 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written French, the 8,831st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balancer is a French verb meaning “to swing (to do a reciprocating movement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tenir en équilibre”.
What does balancer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swing (to do a reciprocating movement)
- 2
to swing (to ride on a swing)
- 3
informalto toss, to throw away, to discard
- 4
slangto denounce, to rat out on (to make a formal or public accusation against)
balancer son porc
- 5
Quebecto balance (to make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tenir en équilibre. 2. Mouvoir, agiter un corps de manière qu’il penche ou qu’il soit porté tantôt d’un côté, tantôt de l’autre. 3. S’élever et descendre alternativement, en parlant de deux personnes qui sont sur les deux bouts d’une pièce de bois mise en équilibre. 4. Peser dans son esprit, faire l’examen et la comparaison de choses opposées.
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 balancer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- balançant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- balancé participle past
- balance first-person indicative present
- balances indicative present second-person
- balançons first-person indicative plural
- balancez indicative plural present
- balancent indicative plural present
- balançais first-person imperfect indicative
- balançait imperfect indicative singular
- balancions first-person imperfect indicative
- balanciez imperfect indicative plural
- balançaient imperfect indicative plural
- balançai first-person historic indicative
- balanças historic indicative past
- balança historic indicative past
- balançâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balancer?
- /ba.lɑ̃.se/
- \ba.lɑ̃.se\
- [ba.lɑ̃.se]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to balancer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balancer in French?
balancer appears 6.9 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).