balle de golf

/\bal də ɡɔlf\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

balle de golf is aFrenchnoun. It means: Balle conçue pour jouer au golf. Selon les règles, elle doit avoir une forme sphérique d’un diamètre d’au moins 42,67 millimètres, et sa masse ne doit excéder 45,93 grammes. Sa surface est souvent ... Pronounced \bal də ɡɔlf\.

Key facts for balle de golf
PropertyValue
Headwordballe de golf
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bal də ɡɔlf\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

balle de golf is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for balle de golf is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bal də ɡɔlf\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Balle conçue pour jouer au golf. Selon les règles, elle doit avoir une forme sphérique d’un diamètre d’au moins 42,67 millimètres, et sa masse ne doit excéder 45,93 grammes. Sa surface est souvent ...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for balle de golf in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is balle de golf, spelled B-A-L-L-E- -D-E- -G-O-L-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Balle conçue pour jouer au golf. Selon les règles, elle doit avoir une forme sphérique d’un diamètre d’au moins 42,67 millimètres, et sa masse ne doit excéder 45,93 grammes. Sa surface est souvent uniformément parsemée de centaines de légères concavités pour modifier son aérodynamisme.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balle de golf"?
"balle de golf" is spelled B-A-L-L-E- -D-E- -G-O-L-F. The IPA pronunciation is \bal də ɡɔlf\.
What does "balle de golf" mean?
As a noun, "balle de golf" means: Balle conçue pour jouer au golf. Selon les règles, elle doit avoir une forme sphérique d’un diamètre d’au moins 42,67 millimètres, et sa masse ne doit excéder 45,93 grammes. Sa surface est souvent ...
How do you pronounce "balle de golf"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balle de golf" is \bal də ɡɔlf\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "balle de golf" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.