Balan
\ba.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“Balan” is uncommon French (frequency #77,265 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,265
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Ain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balan · Balan · French
Balan · rank #77,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,265
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baignées
Nearest frequency peer: baignées (-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 « Balan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bacchantes
bacchantes
22,740 corpus weight
- bagad
bagad
22,738 corpus weight
- baignées
baignées
22,737 corpus weight
- Balan
Balan
22,736 corpus weight
- bancales
bancales
22,735 corpus weight
- bando
bando
22,733 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Balan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Balan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Balan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Balan is uncommon French at frequency #77,265 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Balan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Balan, spelled B-A-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Ain.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Balan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En présence du nombre de ces blessés, des mauvaises conditions du lieu, je me chargeai, à la grande satisfaction des chirurgiens allemands, de 40 des blessés de Daigny, et je les emmenai à Balan. […]. C'est alors que, décidé à m'établir à Balan à poste fixe, j'ai donné à tous les isolés de l'ambulance l'ordre de me rejoindre.
Dès le lever du jour, des groupes de Stuka composés pour chacun d'une soixantaine d'appareils avaient égrené leurs bombes sur Bazeilles, Balan, Torcy et Wadelincourt. Ils n'avaient depuis cessé de se renouveler, allumant partout des incendies au point d'embraser le ciel.
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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