baladais
\ba.la.dɛ\
The verdict
“baladais” is uncommon French (frequency #57,775 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,775
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe balader.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baladais · baladais · French
baladais · rank #57,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,775
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bamberg
Nearest frequency peer: Bamberg (+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 « baladais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aue
Aue
42,230 corpus weight
- automatic
automatic
42,229 corpus weight
- Auxois
Auxois
42,228 corpus weight
- baladais
baladais
42,226 corpus weight
- Bamberg
Bamberg
42,225 corpus weight
- barbaresques
barbaresques
42,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baladais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baladais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.la.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baladais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baladais is uncommon French at frequency #57,775 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.la.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
baladais has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is baladais, spelled B-A-L-A-D-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe balader.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe balader.
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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