softball
French, noun\sɔft.bol\
softball is spelled S-O-F-T-B-A-L-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Softball is a French masculine noun meaning “softball (“sport”): a variant of baseball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sport similaire au baseball, mais qui se joue avec une balle plus grosse et moins dure, et souvent joué par…”.
What does softball mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesoftball (“sport”): a variant of baseball
- 2
masculinesoftball (“ball”): a ball used in the sport of softball
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sport similaire au baseball, mais qui se joue avec une balle plus grosse et moins dure, et souvent joué par des femmes.
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 softball
- softballs plural
- soft-ball alternative
- soft ball alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce softball?
- \sɔft.bol\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to softball
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is softball in French?
softball appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).