baillie
\ba.ji\
The verdict
“baillie” is uncommon French (frequency #88,358 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,358
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puissance, autorité, tutelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baillie · baillie · French
baillie · rank #88,358 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,358
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baigneuse
Nearest frequency peer: baigneuse (-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 « baillie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bafouiller
bafouiller
11,646 corpus weight
- baignes
baignes
11,645 corpus weight
- baigneuse
baigneuse
11,644 corpus weight
- baillie
baillie
11,643 corpus weight
- baisable
baisable
11,642 corpus weight
- balayent
balayent
11,641 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baillie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baillie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ji\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,358 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baillie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baillie is uncommon French at frequency #88,358 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ji\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Puissance, autorité, tutelle.".
baillie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is baillie, spelled B-A-I-L-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Puissance, autorité, tutelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baillie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque le tuteur ou celui qui avait la baillie voulait courir les risques de cette procédure.
Frédéric avait oublié le nom du Responsable sous la baillie duquel il devait travailler et ne l’avait retrouvé qu’en se prêtant au jeu des associations.
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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