bailli

/\ba.ji\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#25,214

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

18

similar word pairs

bailli is aFrenchnoun. It means: Officier royal ou seigneurial, au nom duquel la justice se rendait dans l’étendue d’une certaine juridiction (baillie) où il exerce par délégation un pouvoir administratif et militaire, et surtout ... Pronounced \ba.ji\. Often confused with ball and bali.

Key facts for bailli
PropertyValue
Headwordbailli
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ji\
Letters6
Frequency rank#25,214
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bailli in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bailli is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ji\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,214 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for bailli, with forms such as "abilli", "baili", and "bailil". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "ball", "bali", "balle", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bailli, spelled B-A-I-L-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Officier royal ou seigneurial, au nom duquel la justice se rendait dans l’étendue d’une certaine juridiction (baillie) où il exerce par délégation un pouvoir administratif et militaire, et surtout des attributions judiciaires.
  2. 2
    Chevalier de l’ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, revêtu d’une dignité qui le mettait au-dessus des commandeurs et qui lui donnait le privilège de porter la grand-croix.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abilli,baili,bailil,balili,bbailli,bialli

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bailli

Misspelling Variants of "bailli"

abilli6baili5bailil6balili6bbailli7bialli6
Misspelling Variants of "bailli"

Frequency rank: #25,214 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bailli"?
"bailli" is spelled B-A-I-L-L-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ji\.
What does "bailli" mean?
As a noun, "bailli" means: Officier royal ou seigneurial, au nom duquel la justice se rendait dans l’étendue d’une certaine juridiction (baillie) où il exerce par délégation un pouvoir administratif et militaire, et surtout ...
What words are commonly confused with "bailli"?
"bailli" is commonly confused with "ball", "bali", "balle". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bailli"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bailli" is \ba.ji\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bailli" come from?
"bailli" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.