baal

noun

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The verdict

“baal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,661) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#38,661
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la Haute Antiquité, divinité masculine, dieu sémitique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baal · baal · French

baal · rank #38,661 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,661
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH axés

Nearest frequency peer: axés (-1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « baal »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « baal » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

baal vs BL
0% similar
baal vs bas
50% similar
baal vs bah
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for baal
PropertyValue
Headwordbaal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#38,661
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « baal »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.baalse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « axés » (#38,660), « Babylon » (#38,662), « auray » (#38,659). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baal » est au #38,661. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for baal is neighbouring look-alikes ("BL", "bas", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #38,661 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Dans la Haute Antiquité, divinité masculine, dieu sémitique.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for baal, with forms such as "abal", "baall", and "bala". 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, "BL", "bas", "bah", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is baal, spelled B-A-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dans la Haute Antiquité, divinité masculine, dieu sémitique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how baal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dès que Yahweh, le dieu des Hébreux, se révèle à Moïse, il interdit d'adorer les divinités masculines (les baals) et les divinités féminines (les astartés), qu'il désigne du terme négatif d'« idoles ».
  2. Parce que j’ai dressé, sous le noir térébinthe, L’image de baal, une escarboucle au front.

Antonyms

astarté

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abal
  • baall
  • bala
  • bbaal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baal - 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.

abal2baall1bala2bbaal1
Edit distance from "baal"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baal"?
"baal" is spelled B-A-A-L.
What does "baal" mean?
As a noun, "baal" means: Dans la Haute Antiquité, divinité masculine, dieu sémitique.
What words are commonly confused with "baal"?
"baal" is commonly confused with "BL", "bas", "bah". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "baal" come from?
"baal" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

axés#38,660asti#38,655beef#38,672amel#38,642

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list