ballas
"ballas" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ballas” is uncommon English (frequency #79,287 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,287
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ballas · ballas · English
ballas · rank #79,287 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,287
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH baleful
Nearest frequency peer: baleful (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “ballas”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bailee
bailee
20,717 corpus weight
- bailiwick
bailiwick
20,716 corpus weight
- baleful
baleful
20,715 corpus weight
- ballas
ballas
20,714 corpus weight
- barque
barque
20,713 corpus weight
- Beaune
Beaune
20,710 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ballas” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ballas” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ballas is uncommon English at frequency #79,287 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ballas in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is ballas, spelled B-A-L-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1A spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ballases with smooth even surface yield X-ray patterns of rings only, without noticeable spots or with very small spots, which is an evidence of a fine-ray radial structure of these spherulites.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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