balançoires
\ba.lɑ̃.swaʁ\
The verdict
“balançoires” is uncommon French (frequency #62,803 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,803
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de balançoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balancoires · balançoires · French
balançoires · rank #62,803 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,803
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bakayoko
Nearest frequency peer: Bakayoko (-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 « balançoires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aï
aï
37,201 corpus weight
- bailliages
bailliages
37,200 corpus weight
- Bakayoko
Bakayoko
37,199 corpus weight
- balançoires
balançoires
37,198 corpus weight
- baliser
baliser
37,197 corpus weight
- bambino
bambino
37,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balançoires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balançoires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɑ̃.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balançoires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balançoires is uncommon French at frequency #62,803 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lɑ̃.swaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de balançoire.".
balançoires doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is balançoires, spelled B-A-L-A-N-Ç-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de balançoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balançoires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gardons-nous de romanticiser le destin de cette malheureuse poupée, en évoquant les résurrections à la Tolstoï, les rachats-par-la-souffrance-ou-par-la-passion à la Hugo ou à la Dumas fils, l’ennoblissement-par-la-mort, et toutes les balançoires du même modèle : « Manon » Delorme ou la Caillette-aux-Camélias.
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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