balancement

/\ba.lɑ̃s.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#56,437

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

balancement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement par lequel un corps penche alternativement d’un côté et de l’autre. Pronounced \ba.lɑ̃s.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for balancement
PropertyValue
Headwordbalancement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.lɑ̃s.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#56,437
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of balancement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for balancement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɑ̃s.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #56,437 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for balancement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is balancement, spelled B-A-L-A-N-C-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mouvement par lequel un corps penche alternativement d’un côté et de l’autre.
  2. 2
    Disposition symétrique par laquelle des masses, des groupes répondent à d’autres ; équilibre entre les parties d’un tout.
  3. 3
    Hésitation.
  4. 4
    Roulis, inclinaison de la carrosserie autour d’un axe imaginaire qui ne passe pas nécessairement par le centre de gravité, mais dépend du système de suspension et de la charge.
  5. 5
    Tangage d’un bateau à quai.
  6. 6
    Tracé qui évite des collets trop étroits dans le virage d’un escalier.
  7. 7
    Dépendance mutuelle des organes.
  8. 8
    Déplacement horizontal d’un point quelconque d’un conducteur par rapport à sa position de repos, sous l’effet de certaines charges.
  9. 9
    Type d’exploitation d’un réservoir souterrain faisant alterner les volumes respectifs de l’eau et des hydrocarbures stockés.
  10. 10
    Opération effectuée lors du traçage d’une pièce moulée de sorte qu’il soit possible de disposer d’assez de matière aux endroits usinés à l’outil.
  11. 11
    Tremblement.
  12. 12
    En triangulation, détermination du « gisement calculé » des visées nouvelles d’un tour d’horizon par le calcul des gisements d’au moins deux visées anciennes reprises dans ce tour d’horizon.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #56,437 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balancement"?
"balancement" is spelled B-A-L-A-N-C-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.lɑ̃s.mɑ̃\.
What does "balancement" mean?
As a noun, "balancement" means: Mouvement par lequel un corps penche alternativement d’un côté et de l’autre.
How do you pronounce "balancement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balancement" is \ba.lɑ̃s.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.