baseball
French, noun/bɛz.bɔl/
baseball is spelled B-A-S-E-B-A-L-L (8 letters) and appears 8.9 times per million words in written French, the 7,293rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Baseball is a French masculine noun meaning “post-1990 spelling of base-ball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sport où l’objectif est de frapper sur une balle afin qu’une des neuf personnes de l’équipe puisse courir…”.
What does baseball mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of base-ball
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sport où l’objectif est de frapper sur une balle afin qu’une des neuf personnes de l’équipe puisse courir autour de quatre bases. L’équipe qui a fait le plus de tours au bout de neuf manches gagne.
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 baseball
- baseballs plural
- base-ball
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce baseball?
- /bɛz.bɔl/
- \bɛz.bol\
- \bɛz.bɔl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to baseball
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is baseball in French?
baseball appears 8.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).