Balavoine
\ba.la.vwan\
The verdict
“Balavoine” is uncommon French (frequency #52,508 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,508
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balavoine · Balavoine · French
Balavoine · rank #52,508 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,508
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balancée
Nearest frequency peer: balancée (-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 « Balavoine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- backstage
backstage
47,496 corpus weight
- bafouer
bafouer
47,495 corpus weight
- balancée
balancée
47,494 corpus weight
- Balavoine
Balavoine
47,493 corpus weight
- banalisée
banalisée
47,492 corpus weight
- Barrymore
Barrymore
47,491 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Balavoine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Balavoine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.la.vwan\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Balavoine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Balavoine is uncommon French at frequency #52,508 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.la.vwan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Balavoine, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Balavoine, spelled B-A-L-A-V-O-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Balavoine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les paroles du regretté Daniel Balavoine viennent rapidement à l’esprit quand on pense à l’équipe de France de Didier Deschamps.
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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