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balconette

noun

balconette is spelled B-A-L-C-O-N-E-T-T-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, balconette means “A false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and resembling a balcony when the window is open” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of balconette is balconettes.

How many letters and syllables are in balconette?

Letters10: B-A-L-C-O-N-E-T-T-E
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is balconette?

Balconette appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce balconette?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-balconette.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of balconette

  • balconettes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does balconette mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and resembling a balcony when the window is open.

  2. 2

    rareA small balcony.

  3. 3

    Synonym of balcony bra.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does balconette come from?

From French balconnet.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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