baleine grise
\ba.lɛn ɡʁiz\
The verdict
“baleine grise” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de mammifère marin de grande taille (jusqu’à 15 mètres de longueur), disparue de l’Atlantique, mais toujours présente dans l’océan Pacifique, où ces animaux effectuent de longues migrations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baleine grise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɛn ɡʁiz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baleine grise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baleine grise is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɛn ɡʁiz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de mammifère marin de grande taille (jusqu’à 15 mètres de longueur), disparue de l’Atlantique, mais toujours présente dans l’océan Pacifique, où ces animaux effectuent de longues migrations.".
No misspelling variants are generated for baleine grise in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is baleine grise, spelled B-A-L-E-I-N-E- -G-R-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de mammifère marin de grande taille (jusqu’à 15 mètres de longueur), disparue de l’Atlantique, mais toujours présente dans l’océan Pacifique, où ces animaux effectuent de longues migrations.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-E-I-N-E- -G-R-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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