balais
\ba.lɛ\
The verdict
“balais” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,942. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,942
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De couleur de vin paillet, en parlant d’un rubis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balais · balais · French
balais · rank #18,942 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,942
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balades
Nearest frequency peer: balades (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « balais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aventurier
aventurier
81,062 corpus weight
- axée
axée
81,061 corpus weight
- balades
balades
81,060 corpus weight
- balais
balais
81,059 corpus weight
- banquette
banquette
81,058 corpus weight
- Beaune
Beaune
81,057 corpus weight
What this shows « balais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « balais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around balais (IPA \ba.lɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,942 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "De couleur de vin paillet, en parlant d’un rubis.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for balais, with forms such as "ablais", "baalis", and "balaiss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bali", "bals", "blas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is balais, spelled B-A-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1De couleur de vin paillet, en parlant d’un rubis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how balais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un rubis balais bien monté.
— Si je lui envoyais dans un bel étui de chagrin des pendeloques à grosses perles, un collier d’or à plusieurs rangs avec fermoirs en pierreries, un bracelet en forme de serpent ayant deux gros rubis balais pour yeux !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablais
- baalis
- balaiss
- balasi
- balias
- ballais
- bbalais
- blaais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).