baile
\bɛl\
The verdict
“baile” is uncommon French (frequency #81,793 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,793
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre qu’on donnait autrefois à l’ambassadeur de Venise auprès de la Porte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baile · baile · French
baile · rank #81,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,793
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balançaient
Nearest frequency peer: balançaient (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « baile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- badi
badi
18,211 corpus weight
- badigeonner
badigeonner
18,210 corpus weight
- baile
baile
18,208 corpus weight
- balançaient
balançaient
18,207 corpus weight
- ballotage
ballotage
18,206 corpus weight
- balmoral
balmoral
18,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baile is uncommon French at frequency #81,793 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre qu’on donnait autrefois à l’ambassadeur de Venise auprès de la Porte.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for baile, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is baile, spelled B-A-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Titre qu’on donnait autrefois à l’ambassadeur de Venise auprès de la Porte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il faut aussi songer à la masse des lettres, courriers, rapports, compte rendus de tous les bailes, consuls, ambassadeurs, provéditeurs, qui affluaient dans cette cité, capitale d’un État et d’un empire.
Le baile de Venise s’est longtemps défendu dans sa maison.
Synonyms
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.
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