ballastage
French, noun/ba.las.taʒ/
ballastage is spelled B-A-L-L-A-S-T-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ballastage is a French masculine noun meaning “ballasting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Opération par laquelle on empierre une voie ferrée”.
What does ballastage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineballasting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Opération par laquelle on empierre une voie ferrée. 2. Remplissage des ballasts d’un navire.
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 ballastage
- ballastages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ballastage?
- /ba.las.taʒ/
- \ba.la.staʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ballastage in French?
ballastage appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).