balise Sarsat
\ba.liz saʁ.sat\
The verdict
“balise Sarsat” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Radiobalise qui émet des signaux de détresse destinés à être retransmis par satellite pour localisation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balise Sarsat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.liz saʁ.sat\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “balise Sarsat” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for balise Sarsat is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.liz saʁ.sat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Radiobalise qui émet des signaux de détresse destinés à être retransmis par satellite pour localisation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for balise Sarsat in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Sarsat, spelled B-A-L-I-S-E- -S-A-R-S-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Radiobalise qui émet des signaux de détresse destinés à être retransmis par satellite pour localisation.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “balise Sarsat”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-I-S-E- -S-A-R-S-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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