ballo da sala
\ˈbal.lo ˈda ˈsa.la\
The verdict
“ballo da sala” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Danse de salon, terme générique utilisé regroupant l’ensemble des danses collectives ou à deux dans les bals ou les salons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballo da sala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbal.lo ˈda ˈsa.la\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ballo da sala” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ballo da sala is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈbal.lo ˈda ˈsa.la\. 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: "Danse de salon, terme générique utilisé regroupant l’ensemble des danses collectives ou à deux dans les bals ou les salons.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ballo da sala in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 ballo da sala, spelled B-A-L-L-O- -D-A- -S-A-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Danse de salon, terme générique utilisé regroupant l’ensemble des danses collectives ou à deux dans les bals ou les salons.
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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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-L-O- -D-A- -S-A-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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