ballons
\ba.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“ballons” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,121
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ballon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballons · ballons · French
ballons · rank #9,121 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH autonomes
Nearest frequency peer: autonomes (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ballons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- archéologie
archéologie
90,883 corpus weight
- assassin
assassin
90,882 corpus weight
- autonomes
autonomes
90,881 corpus weight
- ballons
ballons
90,880 corpus weight
- barrages
barrages
90,879 corpus weight
- bourgeoisie
bourgeoisie
90,877 corpus weight
What this shows « ballons » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ballons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ballons (IPA \ba.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,121 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ballon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ballons, with forms such as "abllons", "ballnos", and "ballonns". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "balls", "bâtons", "barons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ballons, spelled B-A-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ballon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Difficile de ne pas trouver son bonheur sur l’un des nombreux stands des commerçants non sédentaires ou les étals des commerces saint-politains installés dans le centre-ville depuis vendredi matin : vêtements et accessoires pour les férus de mode, jeux et ballons colorés pour les enfants, ustensiles de ménage « miracles » pour les fées du logis, objets ar…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abllons
- ballnos
- ballonns
- ballonss
- ballosn
- balolns
- balons
- bballons
- blalons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ballons - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).