baliser
\ba.li.ze\
The verdict
“baliser” is uncommon French (frequency #62,804 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,804
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Équiper de balises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baliser · baliser · French
baliser · rank #62,804 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,804
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balançoires
Nearest frequency peer: balançoires (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « baliser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bailliages
bailliages
37,200 corpus weight
- Bakayoko
Bakayoko
37,199 corpus weight
- balançoires
balançoires
37,198 corpus weight
- baliser
baliser
37,197 corpus weight
- bambino
bambino
37,196 corpus weight
- bamboula
bamboula
37,195 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baliser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baliser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.li.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baliser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baliser is uncommon French at frequency #62,804 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.li.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for baliser, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is baliser, spelled B-A-L-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Équiper de balises.
- 2Garnir de balises les hauts-fonds et les passes pour indiquer les endroits difficiles.
- 3Mettre des marques pour indiquer le chemin.
- 4Avoir peur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baliser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des tortues ont balisé, mais repartent balisées
Baliser l’entrée d’un port, l’embouchure d’un fleuve.
This word in other languages
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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