ball-trap
\bol.tʁap\
The verdict
“ball-trap” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport consistant à abattre au fusil des plateaux de terre cuite projetés en l’air.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ball-trap · ball-trap · French
ball-trap · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ball-trap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bol.tʁap\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ball-trap is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bol.tʁap\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sport consistant à abattre au fusil des plateaux de terre cuite projetés en l’air.".
ball-trap doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 ball-trap, spelled B-A-L-L---T-R-A-P.
Definition
- 1Sport consistant à abattre au fusil des plateaux de terre cuite projetés en l’air.
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.