ballottage
French, noun/ba.lɔ.taʒ/
ballottage is spelled B-A-L-L-O-T-T-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,148th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ballottage is a French masculine noun meaning “ballotage (second ballot, runoff)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vote avec des ballottes”.
What does ballottage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineballotage (second ballot, runoff)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vote avec des ballottes. 2. Action de ballotter des candidats et de les renvoyer à un second tour de scrutin.
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 ballottage
- ballottages plural
- ballotage alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ballottage?
- /ba.lɔ.taʒ/
- \ba.lɔ.taʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ballottage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ballottage in French?
ballottage appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).