balistique
\ba.lis.tik\
The verdict
“balistique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,270
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les projectiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balistique · balistique · French
balistique · rank #26,270 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,270
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bachelor
Nearest frequency peer: bachelor (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « balistique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aurores
aurores
73,734 corpus weight
- Autun
Autun
73,733 corpus weight
- bachelor
bachelor
73,732 corpus weight
- balistique
balistique
73,731 corpus weight
- bergère
bergère
73,729 corpus weight
- bianchi
bianchi
73,728 corpus weight
What this shows « balistique » 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 | balistique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.lis.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « balistique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around balistique (IPA \ba.lis.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,270 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for balistique, with forms such as "ablistique", "bailstique", and "balisitque". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Baltique", "balistiques", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is balistique, spelled B-A-L-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les projectiles.
- 2Qui mesure la vitesse et la force d’expansion des projectiles des fusils, des canons, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how balistique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les militaires se vantent maintenant d’avoir forgé le moteur de missile balistique « le plus puissant » et, selon Jake Sullivan, le conseiller à la Sécurité nationale du président Biden, leur soutien aux activités terroristes au Moyen-Orient, « loin de s’atténuer, s’est accéléré dans certains domaines ».
"L'opération a été menée avec un missile balistique et 15 drones", a affirmé le porte-parole des Houthis, Yahya al-Saree, cité par la chaîne rebelle Al-Massirah à Sanaa.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablistique
- bailstique
- balisitque
- balisstique
- balistiqeu
- balistiqque
- balistiuqe
- balistqiue
- balisttique
- balitsique
- ballistique
- balsitique
- bbalistique
- blaistique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balistique - 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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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).