ballotage
\ba.lɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“ballotage” is uncommon French (frequency #81,795 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,795
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de ballottage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballotage · ballotage · French
ballotage · rank #81,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,795
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balançaient
Nearest frequency peer: balançaient (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ballotage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- badigeonner
badigeonner
18,210 corpus weight
- baile
baile
18,208 corpus weight
- balançaient
balançaient
18,207 corpus weight
- ballotage
ballotage
18,206 corpus weight
- balmoral
balmoral
18,205 corpus weight
- bandy
bandy
18,204 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ballotage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballotage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ballotage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ballotage is uncommon French at frequency #81,795 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lɔ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de ballottage.".
ballotage has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 ballotage, spelled B-A-L-L-O-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de ballottage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ballotage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’abstention électorale pour les dernières élections présidentielles au Chili (2005) a été de 12,34% pour le premier tour et de 12,9% pour le ballotage.
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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