ballades
\ba.lad\
The verdict
“ballades” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,775. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,775
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ballade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballades · ballades · French
ballades · rank #23,775 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,775
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bahreïn
Nearest frequency peer: Bahreïn (-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 « ballades »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- az
az
76,229 corpus weight
- Badoo
Badoo
76,228 corpus weight
- Bahreïn
Bahreïn
76,227 corpus weight
- ballades
ballades
76,226 corpus weight
- bataclan
bataclan
76,225 corpus weight
- bei
bei
76,224 corpus weight
What this shows « ballades » 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 | ballades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ballades »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ballades (IPA \ba.lad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,775 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ballade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ballades, with forms such as "abllades", "balaldes", and "balladdes". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "balles", "Balladur", "balade", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ballades, spelled B-A-L-L-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ballade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès la fin du Moyen Age et la Renaissance (qu’on pense à Villon ou à Rabelais), mais surtout au crépuscule du classicisme, l’art tend à se « désartialiser », à affaiblir ses règles formelles et à s’ouvrir à la vie « ordinaire » (sans la représenter avec les traits caricaturaux et triviaux de la satire) : Lesage, De Foe, Fielding semblent constater ; plus…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abllades
- balaldes
- balladdes
- balladess
- balladse
- ballaeds
- balldaes
- bballades
- blalades
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ballades - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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