ballon prisonnier
\ba.lɔ̃ pʁi.zɔ.nje\
The verdict
“ballon prisonnier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballon-prisonnier · ballon prisonnier · French
ballon prisonnier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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
Rare enough to double-check
ballon prisonnier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lɔ̃ pʁi.zɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ballon prisonnier, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ballon prisonnier, spelled B-A-L-L-O-N- -P-R-I-S-O-N-N-I-E-R.
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.
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