baleinier
\ba.le.nje\
The verdict
“baleinier” is uncommon French (frequency #70,411 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,411
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la baleine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baleinier · baleinier · French
baleinier · rank #70,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,411
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balourd
Nearest frequency peer: balourd (+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 « baleinier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bacha
bacha
29,593 corpus weight
- bactériolog…
bactériologiques
29,592 corpus weight
- baleinier
baleinier
29,590 corpus weight
- balourd
balourd
29,589 corpus weight
- barbiers
barbiers
29,588 corpus weight
- barda
barda
29,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baleinier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baleinier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.le.nje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baleinier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baleinier is uncommon French at frequency #70,411 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.le.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la baleine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for baleinier, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is baleinier, spelled B-A-L-E-I-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la baleine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baleinier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Port baleinier.
Industrie baleinière.
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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