balaient
\ba.lɛ\
The verdict
“balaient” is uncommon French (frequency #79,963 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,963
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe balayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balaient · balaient · French
balaient · rank #79,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,963
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balinais
Nearest frequency peer: balinais (+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 « balaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avouerais
avouerais
20,042 corpus weight
- axillaire
axillaire
20,041 corpus weight
- balaient
balaient
20,038 corpus weight
- balinais
balinais
20,037 corpus weight
- banger
banger
20,035 corpus weight
- baptista
baptista
20,034 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balaient is uncommon French at frequency #79,963 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for balaient, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is balaient, spelled B-A-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe balayer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe balayer.
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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