baliste
French, noun/ba.list/
baliste is spelled B-A-L-I-S-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 109,514th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baliste is a French feminine noun meaning “ballista” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Machine de guerre en usage chez les anciens qui servait à lancer des pierres et des poutres”.
What does baliste mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineballista
noun
- 1
masculinetriggerfish
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Machine de guerre en usage chez les anciens qui servait à lancer des pierres et des poutres.
noun: 1. Espèce de poissons osseux marins qui ont devant la nageoire dorsale un aiguillon pouvant se redresser brusquement comme l’antenne d’une baliste (l’arme).
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 baliste
- balistes plural
- balistidé
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baliste?
- /ba.list/
- \ba.list\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to baliste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baliste in French?
baliste appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).