balayer d’un revers de la main
\ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balayer d’un revers de la main |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ.je d‿œ̃ ʁə.vɛʁ də la mɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “balayer d’un revers de la main” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Nettoyer ou évacuer par un mouvement du dos de la main.
- 2Expédier prestement et simplement.
- 3Repousser ou rejeter catégoriquement un fait ou une affirmation.
- 4Ignorer ; 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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- 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.
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