balayées
\ba.lɛ.je\
The verdict
“balayées” is uncommon French (frequency #65,719 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,719
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe balayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balayees · balayées · French
balayées · rank #65,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,719
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bada
Nearest frequency peer: bada (-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 « balayées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ayoye
ayoye
34,285 corpus weight
- Aznar
Aznar
34,284 corpus weight
- bada
bada
34,283 corpus weight
- balayées
balayées
34,282 corpus weight
- Balma
Balma
34,281 corpus weight
- balo
balo
34,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balayées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balayées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balayées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balayées is uncommon French at frequency #65,719 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.lɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe balayer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for balayées, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is balayées, spelled B-A-L-A-Y-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe balayer.
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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