balle au pied
\ba.l‿o pje\
The verdict
“balle au pied” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Football.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balle au pied |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.l‿o pje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “balle au pied” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
balle au pied is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.l‿o pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Football.".
No misspelling variants are generated for balle au pied in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 balle au pied, spelled B-A-L-L-E- -A-U- -P-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Football.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “balle au pied”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-L-E- -A-U- -P-I-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.l‿o pje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.