ballon
/bəˈlɒn/
"ballon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ballon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,289
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
Corpus desk
Index EN-ballon · ballon · English
ballon · rank #32,289 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,289
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH balding
Nearest frequency peer: balding (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “ballon”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- automata
automata
67,715 corpus weight
- Babel
Babel
67,714 corpus weight
- balding
balding
67,713 corpus weight
- ballon
ballon
67,712 corpus weight
- banding
banding
67,711 corpus weight
- Bannister
Bannister
67,710 corpus weight
What this shows “ballon” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəˈlɒn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ballon”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ballon (IPA /bəˈlɒn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,289 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ballon, with forms such as "abllon", "ballno", and "ballonn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "balls", "baron", "baton", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French ballon. Doublet of balloon. The correct English form is ballon, spelled B-A-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
- 2Synonym of balloon (“type of glass for wine etc”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.
Etymology
From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abllon
- ballno
- ballonn
- baloln
- balon
- bballon
- blalon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ballon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ballon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).