balsa
French, noun/bal.za/
balsa is spelled B-A-L-S-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 92,562nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balsa is a French masculine noun meaning “balsa (tree, wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom vernaculaire de Ochroma pyramidale, arbre de la famille des Malvacées (Malvaceae). originaire des forêts…”.
What does balsa mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebalsa (tree, wood)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom vernaculaire de Ochroma pyramidale, arbre de la famille des Malvacées (Malvaceae). originaire des forêts équatoriales du Yucatan, d’Amérique centrale et d’Amérique du Sud, pouvant atteindre 30 mètres de haut en seulement 8 ans, dont le bois est plus léger que le liège. 2. Bois provenant de cet arbre ayant une densité très faible. 3. Radeau en Amérique latine.
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 balsa
- balsas plural
- balse
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce balsa?
- /bal.za/
- \bal.za\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to balsa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balsa in French?
balsa appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).