bali

/\ba.li\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,452

in French word usage

Misspellings

3

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

bali is aFrenchnoun. It means: Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée aux alentours de la ville de Demsa au Nigéria. Pronounced \ba.li\. Often confused with bi and BL.

Key facts for bali
PropertyValue
Headwordbali
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.li\
Letters4
Frequency rank#19,452
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bali in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bali is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.li\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,452 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée aux alentours de la ville de Demsa au Nigéria.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for bali, with forms such as "balli", "bbali", and "blai". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bi", "BL", "bas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 bali, spelled B-A-L-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée aux alentours de la ville de Demsa au Nigéria.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: balli,bbali,blai

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bali

Misspelling Variants of "bali"

balli5bbali5blai4
Misspelling Variants of "bali"

Frequency rank: #19,452 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bali"?
"bali" is spelled B-A-L-I. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.li\.
What does "bali" mean?
As a noun, "bali" means: Langue nigéro-congolaise parlée aux alentours de la ville de Demsa au Nigéria.
What words are commonly confused with "bali"?
"bali" is commonly confused with "bi", "BL", "bas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bali"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bali" is \ba.li\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bali" come from?
"bali" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.