ballotter
French, verb/ba.lɔ.te/
ballotter is spelled B-A-L-L-O-T-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written French, the 177,898th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ballotter is a French verb meaning “to toss (around), to jolt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agiter en divers sens, en des sens contraires”.
What does ballotter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to toss (around), to jolt
verb
- 1
archaicto ballot: to vote using a ballot
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Agiter en divers sens, en des sens contraires. 2. Se jouer de quelqu’un, le renvoyer de l’un à l’autre ; lui donner des espérances, sans avoir l'intention de le satisfaire. 3. Discuter, l’agiter de part et d’autre, en délibérer, en parlant d'une affaire. 4. Se renvoyer la balle, jouer sans faire de partie réglée.
verb: 1. Se servir de ballottes pour donner les suffrages ou pour tirer au sort. 2. Renvoyer à un second scrutin l’élection de compétiteurs dont aucun n’a obtenu la majorité absolue.
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 ballotter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ballottant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ballotté participle past
- ballotte first-person indicative present
- ballottes indicative present second-person
- ballottons first-person indicative plural
- ballottez indicative plural present
- ballottent indicative plural present
- ballottais first-person imperfect indicative
- ballottait imperfect indicative singular
- ballottions first-person imperfect indicative
- ballottiez imperfect indicative plural
- ballottaient imperfect indicative plural
- ballottai first-person historic indicative
- ballottas historic indicative past
- ballotta historic indicative past
- ballottâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ballotter?
- /ba.lɔ.te/
- \ba.lɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ballotter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ballotter in French?
ballotter appears about once in every 31 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).