balisage
\ba.li.zaʒ\
The verdict
“balisage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,321
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de baliser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balisage · balisage · French
balisage · rank #44,321 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,321
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bafouée
Nearest frequency peer: bafouée (-2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « balisage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Avallon
Avallon
55,684 corpus weight
- bafouée
bafouée
55,682 corpus weight
- balisage
balisage
55,680 corpus weight
- barbeau
barbeau
55,678 corpus weight
- Barnabé
Barnabé
55,677 corpus weight
- Barnier
Barnier
55,676 corpus weight
What this shows « balisage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | balisage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.li.zaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « balisage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around balisage (IPA \ba.li.zaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,321 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for balisage, with forms such as "ablisage", "bailsage", and "baliasge". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "balise", "balayage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 balisage, spelled B-A-L-I-S-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de baliser.
- 2Ensemble des marques ou balises fixes ou flottantes placés en mer ou à terre indiquant aux navires les dangers et le tracé des chenaux d'accès aux ports et abris.
- 3Ensemble des marques jalonnant un itinéraire, action de réaliser ce jalonnement.
- 4Signaux délimitant une zone dangereuse : cônes de chantier, ruban de balisage, avertisseurs lumineux, barrières, …
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balisage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le balisage mène à l’église Saint-Sylvain, au cœur de Saint-Sauvant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablisage
- bailsage
- baliasge
- balisaeg
- balisagge
- balisgae
- balissage
- ballisage
- balsiage
- bbalisage
- blaisage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balisage - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).