ballottage
\ba.lɔ.taʒ\
The verdict
“ballottage” is uncommon French (frequency #50,077 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,077
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vote avec des ballottes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballottage · ballottage · French
ballottage · rank #50,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,077
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bagnols
Nearest frequency peer: Bagnols (-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 « ballottage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babtou
babtou
49,927 corpus weight
- Bagnols
Bagnols
49,925 corpus weight
- ballottage
ballottage
49,924 corpus weight
- bandelettes
bandelettes
49,923 corpus weight
- bands
bands
49,922 corpus weight
- baobab
baobab
49,921 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ballottage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballottage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lɔ.taʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ballottage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ballottage is uncommon French at frequency #50,077 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lɔ.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ballottage in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ballottage, spelled B-A-L-L-O-T-T-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Vote avec des ballottes.
- 2Action de ballotter des candidats et de les renvoyer à un second tour de scrutin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ballottage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le scrutin de ballottage entre M. Du Pavillon et moi a donné la majorité à M. Du Pavillon, qui l'a emporté à cinq voix. — (Maine de Biran, Journal, 1816)
Quand fut achevé le dépouillement, on constata qu’il y avait 47 bulletins pour les Rouges et 47 bulletins pour les Blancs. Le président, abasourdi, et son bureau ahuri, prononcèrent le ballottage.
This word in other languages
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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