balbutiante
\bal.by.sjɑ̃t\
The verdict
“balbutiante” is uncommon French (frequency #87,355 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,355
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de balbutiant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balbutiante · balbutiante · French
balbutiante · rank #87,355 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,355
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balayait
Nearest frequency peer: balayait (-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 « balbutiante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bagout
bagout
12,650 corpus weight
- balasko
balasko
12,648 corpus weight
- balayait
balayait
12,647 corpus weight
- balbutiante
balbutiante
12,646 corpus weight
- Bamenda
Bamenda
12,645 corpus weight
- Bardin
Bardin
12,644 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balbutiante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balbutiante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bal.by.sjɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balbutiante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balbutiante is uncommon French at frequency #87,355 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bal.by.sjɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de balbutiant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for balbutiante in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 balbutiante, spelled B-A-L-B-U-T-I-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de balbutiant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balbutiante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme toute filière balbutiante, plus on travaillera sur les e-fuels, plus on peut espérer améliorer les rendements et, ainsi, faire baisser les prix, précise Guillaume Crunelle.
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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