balayés
\ba.lɛ.je\
The verdict
“balayés” is uncommon French (frequency #51,293 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,293
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe balayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balayes · balayés · French
balayés · rank #51,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,293
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baisant
Nearest frequency peer: baisant (-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 « balayés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- augmentaient
augmentaient
48,712 corpus weight
- baignoires
baignoires
48,710 corpus weight
- baisant
baisant
48,709 corpus weight
- balayés
balayés
48,708 corpus weight
- balla
balla
48,706 corpus weight
- banalise
banalise
48,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balayés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balayés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balayés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balayés is uncommon French at frequency #51,293 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.lɛ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe balayer.".
balayés has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is balayés, spelled B-A-L-A-Y-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel 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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