balard
[ba.ˈlarɖ]
The verdict
“balard” is uncommon French (frequency #68,839 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,839
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Balourd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balard · balard · French
balard · rank #68,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,839
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babylonien
Nearest frequency peer: babylonien (-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 « balard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babi
babi
31,165 corpus weight
- Babinet
Babinet
31,164 corpus weight
- babylonien
babylonien
31,163 corpus weight
- balard
balard
31,162 corpus weight
- Balmont
Balmont
31,161 corpus weight
- baoulé
baoulé
31,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ba.ˈlarɖ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balard is uncommon French at frequency #68,839 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ba.ˈlarɖ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Balourd.".
Zero misspellings are on record for balard in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is balard, spelled B-A-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Balourd.
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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