ballonne
\ba.lɔn\
The verdict
“ballonne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe ballonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballonne · ballonne · French
ballonne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | ballonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.lɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ballonne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ballonne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.lɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for ballonne in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ballonne, spelled B-A-L-L-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe ballonner.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe ballonner.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe ballonner.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe ballonner.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe ballonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du côté de Villegrande, une nuée sombre ballonne à l’horizon.
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.