ballots
\ba.lo\
The verdict
“ballots” is uncommon French (frequency #62,071 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,071
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de ballot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballots · ballots · French
ballots · rank #62,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,071
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baissées
Nearest frequency peer: baissées (-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 « ballots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Azerbaïdjan…
Azerbaïdjanais
37,934 corpus weight
- baissées
baissées
37,931 corpus weight
- ballots
ballots
37,930 corpus weight
- bananière
bananière
37,929 corpus weight
- bani
bani
37,927 corpus weight
- banlieusard
banlieusard
37,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ballots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ballots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ballots is uncommon French at frequency #62,071 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de ballot.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ballots in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ballots, spelled B-A-L-L-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de ballot.
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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