ballet
\ba.lɛ\
The verdict
“ballet” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,277
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse classique figurée, exécutée par plusieurs personnes sur un théâtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballet · ballet · French
ballet · rank #9,277 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baguette
Nearest frequency peer: baguette (-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 « ballet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- averti
averti
90,727 corpus weight
- avocate
avocate
90,726 corpus weight
- baguette
baguette
90,725 corpus weight
- ballet
ballet
90,724 corpus weight
- bancs
bancs
90,723 corpus weight
- barrières
barrières
90,722 corpus weight
What this shows « ballet » 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 | ballet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ballet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ballet (IPA \ba.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,277 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ballet, with forms such as "abllet", "balelt", and "balet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "belle", "bulle", "bille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ballet, spelled B-A-L-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1Danse classique figurée, exécutée par plusieurs personnes sur un théâtre.
- 2Pièce de théâtre où l’action n’est représentée que par les gestes et les attitudes des danseurs.
- 3Mouvement de va-et-vient incessant de nombreuses personnes ou objets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ballet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du reste, on n’y regardait pas de si près, et l’on pouvait tout aussi bien, au XVIᵉ siècle, accommoder ces cantiques naïfs sur des airs de danse, que, cent ans après, ajuster les noëls de de la Monnoye sur les airs des ballets de Lulli, le Rigodon de Galathée, sa Chaconne du grand ballet du Roy, l’ouverture de Bellérophon, etc.
Que la fête commence ! Dans toute féerie qui se respecte, il y a un ballet, et c'est toujours en ces termes consacrés qu'on l'annonce.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abllet
- balelt
- balet
- ballett
- ballte
- bballet
- blalet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ballet - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).