balancée
\ba.lɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“balancée” is uncommon French (frequency #52,507 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,507
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de balancé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balancee · balancée · French
balancée · rank #52,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,507
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bafouer
Nearest frequency peer: bafouer (-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 « balancée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aéroportée
aéroportée
47,497 corpus weight
- backstage
backstage
47,496 corpus weight
- bafouer
bafouer
47,495 corpus weight
- balancée
balancée
47,494 corpus weight
- Balavoine
Balavoine
47,493 corpus weight
- banalisée
banalisée
47,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balancée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balancée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.lɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balancée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balancée is uncommon French at frequency #52,507 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.lɑ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de balancé.".
balancée doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is balancée, spelled B-A-L-A-N-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de balancé.
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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