bali
\ba.li\
The verdict
“bali” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,452) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,452
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée aux alentours de la ville de Demsa au Nigéria.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bali · bali · French
bali · rank #19,452 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,452
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bailleurs
Nearest frequency peer: bailleurs (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bali »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- attractif
attractif
80,552 corpus weight
- avérée
avérée
80,551 corpus weight
- bailleurs
bailleurs
80,550 corpus weight
- bali
bali
80,549 corpus weight
- banks
banks
80,548 corpus weight
- Barthélemy
Barthélemy
80,547 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bali » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bali |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bali »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bali is neighbouring look-alikes ("bi", "BL", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ba.li\. Frequency #19,452 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée aux alentours de la ville de Demsa au Nigéria.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for bali, with forms such as "balli", "bbali", and "blai". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bi", "BL", "bas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bali, spelled B-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée aux alentours de la ville de Demsa au Nigéria.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- balli
- bbali
- blai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bali - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bali", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).