ballon prisonnier
\ba.lɔ̃ pʁi.zɔ.nje\
The verdict
“ballon prisonnier” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jeu sportif dont le but est d’éliminer tous les joueurs adverses, en les touchant avec le ballon. Cependant ils peuvent se libérer en faisant de même depuis leur prison, derrière le camp adverse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballon prisonnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɔ̃ pʁi.zɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ballon prisonnier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ballon prisonnier is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lɔ̃ pʁi.zɔ.nje\. 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: "Jeu sportif dont le but est d’éliminer tous les joueurs adverses, en les touchant avec le ballon. Cependant ils peuvent se libérer en faisant de même depuis leur prison, derrière le camp adverse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ballon prisonnier 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 ballon prisonnier, spelled B-A-L-L-O-N- -P-R-I-S-O-N-N-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu sportif dont le but est d’éliminer tous les joueurs adverses, en les touchant avec le ballon. Cependant ils peuvent se libérer en faisant de même depuis leur prison, derrière le camp adverse.
Synonyms
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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Using “ballon prisonnier”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-L-O-N- -P-R-I-S-O-N-N-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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