bald
\balt\
The verdict
“bald” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bientôt, tout à l’heure, sitôt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bald · bald · French
bald · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bald |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \balt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bald » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bald is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \balt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bald has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bald, spelled B-A-L-D.
Definition
- 1Bientôt, tout à l’heure, sitôt.
- 2Presque.
- 3Tantôt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bald appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So bald noch nicht! / nich so bald!
so bald wie möglich.
Antonyms
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.