balancer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,812
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
balancer is aFrenchverb. It means: Tenir en équilibre. Pronounced \ba.lɑ̃.se\. It ranks #8,812 in French word frequency. Often confused with balayer and balances.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balancer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.lɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for balancer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɑ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,812 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for balancer, with forms such as "ablancer", "baalncer", and "balacner". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "balayer", "balances", "Bélanger", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 balancer, spelled B-A-L-A-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tenir en équilibre.
- 2Mouvoir, agiter un corps de manière qu’il penche ou qu’il soit porté tantôt d’un côté, tantôt de l’autre.
- 3S’élever et descendre alternativement, en parlant de deux personnes qui sont sur les deux bouts d’une pièce de bois mise en équilibre.
- 4Peser dans son esprit, faire l’examen et la comparaison de choses opposées.
- 5Compenser une chose par une autre.
- 6Empêcher de prévaloir, égaler en importance, en mérite, etc.
- 7Rendre égales entre elles les sommes qui figurent au débit et au crédit d’un compte en ajoutant à la moins élevée la différence qu’on nomme Solde.
- 8En parlant de masses, organiser des groupes qui, dans une composition, servent de pendant à d’autres et forment avec eux une espèce de symétrie ou d’équilibre pittoresque.
- 9Faire se correspondre, ou bien organiser des phrases ou parties de phrases.
- 10Jeter, (avec un mouvement de balancement), lancer.
- 11Renvoyer.
- 12Dénoncer.
- 13Exécuter le pas qu’on nomme balancé.
- 14Hésiter, être en suspens, pencher tantôt d’un côté, tantôt de l’autre.
- 15Effectuer des convoyages en taxis collectifs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablancer,baalncer,balacner,balanccer,balancerr,balancre,balanecr,balanncer,ballancer,balnacer,bbalancer,blaancer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for balancer
Misspelling Variants of "balancer"
Frequency rank: #8,812 in French
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