balayer d’un revers de la main

\ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\

/\ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“balayer d’un revers de la main” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
30
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nettoyer ou évacuer par un mouvement du dos de la main.

Key facts for balayer d’un revers de la main
PropertyValue
Headwordbalayer d’un revers de la main
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\
Letters30
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “balayer d’un revers de la main” sits in French frequency

balayer d’un revers de la main falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for balayer d’un revers de la main is 30 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for balayer d’un revers de la main in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is balayer d’un revers de la main, spelled B-A-L-A-Y-E-R- -D-’-U-N- -R-E-V-E-R-S- -D-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nettoyer ou évacuer par un mouvement du dos de la main.
  2. 2
    Expédier prestement et simplement.
  3. 3
    Repousser ou rejeter catégoriquement un fait ou une affirmation.
  4. 4
    Ignorer ; jeter aux oubliettes ; considérer comme quantité négligeable.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balayer d’un revers de la main"?
"balayer d’un revers de la main" is spelled B-A-L-A-Y-E-R- -D-’-U-N- -R-E-V-E-R-S- -D-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\.
What does "balayer d’un revers de la main" mean?
As a verb, "balayer d’un revers de la main" means: Nettoyer ou évacuer par un mouvement du dos de la main.
How do you pronounce "balayer d’un revers de la main"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balayer d’un revers de la main" is \ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “balayer d’un revers de la main”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-A-Y-E-R- -D-’-U-N- -R-E-V-E-R-S- -D-E- -L-A- -M-A-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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