baladeur
\ba.la.dœʁ\
The verdict
“baladeur” is uncommon French (frequency #53,796 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,796
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se balade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baladeur · baladeur · French
baladeur · rank #53,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,796
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baja
Nearest frequency peer: baja (-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 « baladeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BADR
BADR
46,208 corpus weight
- baignait
baignait
46,207 corpus weight
- baja
baja
46,206 corpus weight
- baladeur
baladeur
46,205 corpus weight
- balek
balek
46,204 corpus weight
- balivernes
balivernes
46,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baladeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baladeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.la.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baladeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baladeur is uncommon French at frequency #53,796 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.la.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui se balade.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for baladeur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is baladeur, spelled B-A-L-A-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui se balade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baladeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce programme de test mémoire inclut des tests par la méthode du bit baladeur.
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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