ballants
\ba.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“ballants” is uncommon French (frequency #80,902 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,902
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de ballant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballants · ballants · French
ballants · rank #80,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,902
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balbutiant
Nearest frequency peer: balbutiant (-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 « ballants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baignaient
baignaient
19,102 corpus weight
- balbutiant
balbutiant
19,100 corpus weight
- ballants
ballants
19,099 corpus weight
- bankable
bankable
19,098 corpus weight
- bannissant
bannissant
19,097 corpus weight
- baptismale
baptismale
19,096 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ballants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ballants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ballants is uncommon French at frequency #80,902 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de ballant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ballants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ballants, spelled B-A-L-L-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de ballant.
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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