balise
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,214
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
balise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tout moyen de marquage d’un point de la surface terrestre. Pronounced \ba.liz\. Often confused with Base and bals.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.liz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for balise is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.liz\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,214 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for balise, with forms such as "ablise", "bailse", and "balies". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Base", "bals", "balle", 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 balise, spelled B-A-L-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tout moyen de marquage d’un point de la surface terrestre.
- 2Tout moyen de marquage d’un point de la surface terrestre.
- 3Tout moyen de marquage d’un point de la surface terrestre.
- 4Tout moyen de marquage d’un point de la surface terrestre.
- 5Tout moyen de marquage d’un point de la surface terrestre.
- 6Tout moyen de marquage d’un point de la surface terrestre.
- 7Chemin de halage.
- 8Balise de priorité Signal routier ancien, équivalent au « cédez le passage » actuel. Le terme de balise est encore employé de nos jours pour désigner le « cédez le passage ».
- 9Dans un langage de description de documents, marque destinée à l’identification, la description ou la mise en forme d’un élément de document.
- 10Dispositif radioélectrique fixe de télécommunication à faible distance avec des véhicules.
- 11Dispositif doté d’un identificateur, repérable par des moyens appropriés et utilisé à des fins de localisation.
- 12Limite à respecter.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablise,bailse,balies,balisse,ballise,balsie,bbalise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for balise
Misspelling Variants of "balise"
Frequency rank: #19,214 in French
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Nearby French words
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