balayait
\ba.le.jɛ\
The verdict
“balayait” is uncommon French (frequency #87,354 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,354
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe balayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balayait · balayait · French
balayait · rank #87,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,354
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balasko
Nearest frequency peer: balasko (-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 « balayait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Bardin
Bardin
12,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balayait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balayait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.le.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balayait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balayait is uncommon French at frequency #87,354 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.le.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe balayer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for balayait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is balayait, spelled B-A-L-A-Y-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe balayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balayait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans nos colonnes, le 30 mai, Laurent-Éric Le Lay, le directeur des sports des chaînes publiques, balayait la possibilité d’acquérir les droits de la compétition.
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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