balle au mur
\ba.l‿o myʁ\
The verdict
“balle au mur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne appellation du handball (en tant que loisir, dans les années 1930) au Québec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balle-au-mur · balle au mur · French
balle au mur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | balle au mur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.l‿o myʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balle au mur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balle au mur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.l‿o myʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne appellation du handball (en tant que loisir, dans les années 1930) au Québec.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for balle au mur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is balle au mur, spelled B-A-L-L-E- -A-U- -M-U-R.
Definition
- 1Ancienne appellation du handball (en tant que loisir, dans les années 1930) au Québec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balle au mur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au collège Brébeuf, le sport est omniprésent : on joue notamment aux quilles, à la balle de camp (baseball), à la balle molle, à la balle au mur (handball), au gouret (hockey), à la crosse, au tennis, au drapeau, aux billards et au Mississipi.
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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.