balaya
\ba.le.ja\
The verdict
“balaya” is uncommon French (frequency #93,516 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,516
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe balayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balaya · balaya · French
balaya · rank #93,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,516
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balayeurs
Nearest frequency peer: balayeurs (+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 « balaya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babeurre
babeurre
6,488 corpus weight
- backgammon
backgammon
6,487 corpus weight
- balaya
balaya
6,485 corpus weight
- balayeurs
balayeurs
6,484 corpus weight
- ballroom
ballroom
6,483 corpus weight
- bann
bann
6,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balaya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balaya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.le.ja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balaya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balaya is uncommon French at frequency #93,516 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.le.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe balayer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for balaya, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is balaya, spelled B-A-L-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe balayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balaya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une averse balaya la terrasse, noya la nourriture et les boissons, trempa les coussins, chassa les invités qui se bousculèrent pour entrer dans les huttes.
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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