bal des antiques
\bal dɛ.z‿ɑ̃.tik\
The verdict
“bal des antiques” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Bal organisé par les anciens élèves, dans le but de marier leurs filles à de jeunes et fringants élèves.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bal des antiques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bal dɛ.z‿ɑ̃.tik\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bal des antiques” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bal des antiques is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bal dɛ.z‿ɑ̃.tik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bal organisé par les anciens élèves, dans le but de marier leurs filles à de jeunes et fringants élèves.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bal des antiques in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 bal des antiques, spelled B-A-L- -D-E-S- -A-N-T-I-Q-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bal organisé par les anciens élèves, dans le but de marier leurs filles à de jeunes et fringants élèves.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L- -D-E-S- -A-N-T-I-Q-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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