batifolage
French, noun/ba.ti.fɔ.laʒ/
batifolage is spelled B-A-T-I-F-O-L-A-G-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 78 million words in written French, the 276,145th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Batifolage is a French masculine noun meaning “frolic; frolicking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de batifoler”.
What does batifolage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefrolic; frolicking
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de batifoler.
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 batifolage
- batifolages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce batifolage?
- /ba.ti.fɔ.laʒ/
- \ba.ti.fɔ.laʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is batifolage in French?
batifolage appears about once in every 78 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).