balaise
\ba.lɛz\
The verdict
“balaise” is uncommon French (frequency #53,151 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,151
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de balèze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balaise · balaise · French
balaise · rank #53,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,151
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babouin
Nearest frequency peer: babouin (-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 « balaise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avicenne
avicenne
46,853 corpus weight
- avoua
avoua
46,852 corpus weight
- babouin
babouin
46,851 corpus weight
- balaise
balaise
46,850 corpus weight
- Barbosa
Barbosa
46,849 corpus weight
- Barrault
Barrault
46,848 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balaise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.lɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balaise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balaise is uncommon French at frequency #53,151 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.lɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de balèze.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for balaise, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is balaise, spelled B-A-L-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de balèze.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À un moment donné, Zef avisa son compère en train de s’embrouiller avec une meute de types plutôt balaises. Une équipe de rugby au grand complet qui fêtait là sa troisième mi-temps.
Antonyms
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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