goalball
French, noun/ɡol.bɔl/
goalball is spelled G-O-A-L-B-A-L-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written French, the 253,038th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Goalball is a French masculine noun meaning “goalball, a parasport for the blind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Discipline paralympique destinée aux personnes déficientes visuelles et ouverte aux valides, dont l’objectif…”.
What does goalball mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegoalball, a parasport for the blind
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Discipline paralympique destinée aux personnes déficientes visuelles et ouverte aux valides, dont l’objectif est de marquer un but en lançant un ballon sonore à la main au ras du sol, chaque équipe étant composée de trois joueurs, en alternance attaquants puis défenseurs.
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.
How do you pronounce goalball?
- /ɡol.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 goalball
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is goalball in French?
goalball appears about once in every 65 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).