balasko
\ba.las.ko\
The verdict
“balasko” is uncommon French (frequency #87,353 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,353
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lesbienne à l’attitude macho et masculine, comme le personnage de Josiane Balasko dans le film Gazon maudit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balasko · balasko · French
balasko · rank #87,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,353
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balayait
Nearest frequency peer: balayait (+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 « balasko »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bacilles
bacilles
12,652 corpus weight
- bagout
bagout
12,650 corpus weight
- balasko
balasko
12,648 corpus weight
- balayait
balayait
12,647 corpus weight
- balbutiante
balbutiante
12,646 corpus weight
- Bamenda
Bamenda
12,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balasko » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balasko |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.las.ko\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balasko » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balasko is uncommon French at frequency #87,353 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.las.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lesbienne à l’attitude macho et masculine, comme le personnage de Josiane Balasko dans le film Gazon maudit.".
balasko doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is balasko, spelled B-A-L-A-S-K-O.
Definition
- 1Lesbienne à l’attitude macho et masculine, comme le personnage de Josiane Balasko dans le film Gazon maudit.
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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