balé
Portuguese, noun
balé is spelled B-A-L-É (4 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,278th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Balé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “ballet (classical form of dance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, balê is a different word: “alternative spelling of balé”. Without its accent, bale is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estilo acadêmico de dança, que derivou do praticado na corte francesa no século XVII, e habitualmente…”.
What does balé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineballet (classical form of dance)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of balé
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
- 3
third-person singular present indicative
- 4
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estilo acadêmico de dança, que derivou do praticado na corte francesa no século XVII, e habitualmente executado ao compasso de música clássica 2. elenco que se dedica a este estilo de dança
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of balé
- balés plural
- balê alternative
- ballet alternative
- balês plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to balé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is balé in Portuguese?
balé appears 3.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).