basketball
French, noun/bas.kɛt.bol/
basketball is spelled B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L (10 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,679th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Basketball is a French masculine noun meaning “post-1990 spelling of basket-ball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de basket-ball”.
What does basketball mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of basket-ball
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de basket-ball.
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 basketball
- basketballs plural
- basket-ball
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce basketball?
- /bas.kɛt.bol/
- \bas.kɛt.bol\
- \bas.kɛt.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 basketball
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is basketball in French?
basketball appears 2.3 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).