ball
\bal\
The verdict
“ball” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,733) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,733
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bientôt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ball · ball · French
ball · rank #5,733 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,733
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH azur
Nearest frequency peer: azur (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ball »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- aurons
aurons
94,271 corpus weight
- azur
azur
94,269 corpus weight
- ball
ball
94,268 corpus weight
- Brésilien
Brésilien
94,267 corpus weight
- campus
campus
94,266 corpus weight
- chouette
chouette
94,265 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ball » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ball |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \bal\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ball »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ball is neighbouring look-alikes ("BL", "bas", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced \bal\. Frequency #5,733 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bientôt.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for ball, with forms such as "abll", "bball", and "blal". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BL", "bas", "bar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ball, spelled B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Bientôt.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abll
- bball
- blal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ball - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ball", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).