baleinière
\ba.lɛ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“baleinière” is uncommon French (frequency #72,099 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,099
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embarcation longue employée à la pêche de la baleine ou canot de même forme au service d’un grand navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baleiniere · baleinière · French
baleinière · rank #72,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,099
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balayette
Nearest frequency peer: balayette (-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 « baleinière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baigneuses
baigneuses
27,905 corpus weight
- baisait
baisait
27,904 corpus weight
- balayette
balayette
27,903 corpus weight
- baleinière
baleinière
27,902 corpus weight
- baptisa
baptisa
27,901 corpus weight
- barb
barb
27,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baleinière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baleinière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baleinière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baleinière is uncommon French at frequency #72,099 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lɛ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
baleinière has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is baleinière, spelled B-A-L-E-I-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Embarcation longue employée à la pêche de la baleine ou canot de même forme au service d’un grand navire.
- 2Grand bateau, paquebot fluvial ou lacustre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baleinière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vieille et solide baleinière, construite pour l’Antarctique, ainsi qu’un bon canot poussèrent du bord.
On ignore le nombre des passagers qui avaient embarqué à bord de cette baleinière, le manifeste minorant d’habitude le nombre des passagers pour se soustraire des exigences de la réglementation en la matière.
This word in other languages
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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