balayez
\ba.le.je\
The verdict
“balayez” is uncommon French (frequency #83,622 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,622
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe balayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balayez · balayez · French
balayez · rank #83,622 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,622
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balkanisation
Nearest frequency peer: balkanisation (+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 « balayez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- badaud
badaud
16,382 corpus weight
- Bages
Bages
16,381 corpus weight
- balayez
balayez
16,379 corpus weight
- balkanisati…
balkanisation
16,378 corpus weight
- Banjul
Banjul
16,377 corpus weight
- Banon
Banon
16,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balayez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balayez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.le.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,622 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balayez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balayez is uncommon French at frequency #83,622 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.le.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for balayez in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is balayez, spelled B-A-L-A-Y-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe balayer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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