baliveau
French, noun/ba.li.vo/
baliveau is spelled B-A-L-I-V-E-A-U (8 letters) and appears about once in every 51 million words in written French, the 226,484th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baliveau is a French masculine noun meaning “staddle, sapling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Jeune arbre réservé, lors de la coupe d’un taillis, afin qu’il puisse devenir un arbre de haute futaie”.
What does baliveau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestaddle, sapling
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Jeune arbre réservé, lors de la coupe d’un taillis, afin qu’il puisse devenir un arbre de haute futaie. 2. Arbre de pépinière ayant un tronc bien vertical et des branches latérales. 3. Grande perche verticale qui supporte les échafauds.
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 baliveau
- baliveaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baliveau?
- /ba.li.vo/
- \ba.li.vo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is baliveau in French?
baliveau appears about once in every 51 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).