ballottement
French, noun/ba.lɔt.mɑ̃/
ballottement is spelled B-A-L-L-O-T-T-E-M-E-N-T (12 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written French, the 229,021st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ballottement is a French masculine noun meaning “rocking; tossing (of boat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mouvement d’une chose qui, n’étant pas fixée, ballotte, va tantôt d’un côté, tantôt de l’autre”.
What does ballottement mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerocking; tossing (of boat)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mouvement d’une chose qui, n’étant pas fixée, ballotte, va tantôt d’un côté, tantôt de l’autre. 2. Ensemble d’oscillations à basse fréquence d’un liquide dans un réservoir soumis à des fluctuations d'accélération.
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 ballottement
- ballottements plural
- ballotement
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ballottement?
- /ba.lɔt.mɑ̃/
- \ba.lɔt.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ballottement
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ballottement in French?
ballottement appears about once in every 52 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).