ballerine
\bal.ʁin\
The verdict
“ballerine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,431. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,431
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danseuse de ballet, de théâtre
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballerine · ballerine · French
ballerine · rank #34,431 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,431
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banquets
Nearest frequency peer: banquets (+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 « ballerine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attitré
attitré
65,574 corpus weight
- automatisés
automatisés
65,572 corpus weight
- ballerine
ballerine
65,570 corpus weight
- banquets
banquets
65,569 corpus weight
- barde
barde
65,568 corpus weight
- bete
bete
65,567 corpus weight
What this shows « ballerine » 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 | ballerine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bal.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ballerine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around ballerine (IPA \bal.ʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,431 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for ballerine, with forms such as "abllerine", "balelrine", and "balerine". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ballerines", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ballerine, spelled B-A-L-L-E-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Danseuse de ballet, de théâtre
- 2Chausson pour la danse classique.
- 3Chaussure féminine fermée et décolletée à bouts ronds, souvent plate et possédant parfois un talon très mince ou aucun talon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ballerine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car il était devenu danseur célèbre, « premier danseur des principaux théâtres du globe », et avait fourni à ces principaux théâtres du globe quinze ballerins et ballerines, et avait par surcroît philosophé à sa manière sur son art, sur l’art, au point d’inventer sa fameuse métaphysique de la danse.
Une fillette, qui a adoré la séance de ballet à laquelle elle a assisté avec sa maman, est déterminée à devenir ballerine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abllerine
- balelrine
- balerine
- balleirne
- ballerien
- ballerinne
- ballernie
- ballerrine
- ballreine
- bballerine
- blalerine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ballerine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).