ballon

/\ba.lɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,983

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

ballon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet de forme sphérique, généralement composée d’une vessie gonflée d’air et recouverte de cuir ou de plastique et servant à jouer. Pronounced \ba.lɔ̃\. It ranks #2,983 in French word frequency. Often confused with baron and bâton.

Key facts for ballon
PropertyValue
Headwordballon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.lɔ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,983
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ballon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ballon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,983 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ballon, with forms such as "abllon", "ballno", and "ballonn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "baron", "bâton", "balls", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 ballon, spelled B-A-L-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objet de forme sphérique, généralement composée d’une vessie gonflée d’air et recouverte de cuir ou de plastique et servant à jouer.
  2. 2
    Objet de forme sphérique, généralement composée d’une vessie gonflée d’air et recouverte de cuir ou de plastique et servant à jouer.
  3. 3
    Objet de forme sphérique, généralement composée d’une vessie gonflée d’air et recouverte de cuir ou de plastique et servant à jouer.
  4. 4
    Tout objet souple gonflé d’un fluide.
  5. 5
    Tout objet souple gonflé d’un fluide.
  6. 6
    Ballon de baudruche.
  7. 7
    Balle de fusil.
  8. 8
    Objet servant à stocker.
  9. 9
    Aérostat qui s’élève dans l’atmosphère grâce à une grande poche que l’on remplit d’air chaud ou d’un gaz plus léger que l’air.
  10. 10
    Verre de forme sphérique ; son contenu.
  11. 11
    Grand vase de verre de forme sphérique destiné à recevoir et à condenser les fluides qui se dégagent dans certaines.
  12. 12
    Éthylotest.
  13. 13
    Sommet arrondi d’une montagne.
  14. 14
    Navire à rames, dont on se servait au Siam, sur les fleuves et sur les mers ^([1]).
  15. 15
    Prison, poste de police.
  16. 16
    Arrangement de crinolines qui, sur les robes féminines, donnait une apparence de rondeur aux fesses.
  17. 17
    Meuble représentant le véhicule du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté guttiforme renversé (en forme de goutte à l’envers) avec une nacelle suspendue par des câbles. À rapprocher de aéroplane, avion et montgolfière.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: abllon,ballno,ballonn,baloln,balon,bballon,blalon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ballon

Misspelling Variants of "ballon"

abllon6ballno6ballonn7baloln6balon5bballon7blalon6
Misspelling Variants of "ballon"

Frequency rank: #2,983 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ballon"?
"ballon" is spelled B-A-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.lɔ̃\.
What does "ballon" mean?
As a noun, "ballon" means: Objet de forme sphérique, généralement composée d’une vessie gonflée d’air et recouverte de cuir ou de plastique et servant à jouer.
What words are commonly confused with "ballon"?
"ballon" is commonly confused with "baron", "bâton", "balls". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ballon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ballon" is \ba.lɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ballon" come from?
"ballon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.