balbutiant
\bal.by.sjɑ̃\
The verdict
“balbutiant” is uncommon French (frequency #80,901 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,901
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe balbutier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balbutiant · balbutiant · French
balbutiant · rank #80,901 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,901
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH ballants
Nearest frequency peer: ballants (+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 « balbutiant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bahar
bahar
19,103 corpus weight
- baignaient
baignaient
19,102 corpus weight
- balbutiant
balbutiant
19,100 corpus weight
- ballants
ballants
19,099 corpus weight
- bankable
bankable
19,098 corpus weight
- bannissant
bannissant
19,097 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balbutiant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balbutiant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bal.by.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balbutiant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balbutiant is uncommon French at frequency #80,901 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bal.by.sjɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe balbutier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for balbutiant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is balbutiant, spelled B-A-L-B-U-T-I-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe balbutier.
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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