balata
French, noun/ba.la.ta/
balata is spelled B-A-L-A-T-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balata is a French masculine noun meaning “balata” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel de Manilkara bidentata, arbre de la famille des Sapotacées (Sapotaceae) qui fournit un fruit…”.
What does balata mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebalata
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom usuel de Manilkara bidentata, arbre de la famille des Sapotacées (Sapotaceae) qui fournit un fruit comestible, ainsi qu'un latex (la gutta-balata) et un bois précieux (le massaranduba) à multiples usages commerciaux, il est originaire de la forêt amazonienne. 2. Gomme produite par cet arbre.
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 balata
- balatas plural
- balatá
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balata?
- /ba.la.ta/
- \ba.la.ta\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to balata
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balata in French?
balata appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).