ballroom
The verdict
“ballroom” is uncommon French (frequency #93,518 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,518
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catégorie de danse habituellement dansée dans les salons, les salles de bal, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballroom · ballroom · French
ballroom · rank #93,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,518
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balayeurs
Nearest frequency peer: balayeurs (-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 « ballroom »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- backgammon
backgammon
6,487 corpus weight
- balaya
balaya
6,485 corpus weight
- balayeurs
balayeurs
6,484 corpus weight
- ballroom
ballroom
6,483 corpus weight
- bann
bann
6,482 corpus weight
- Bautzen
Bautzen
6,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ballroom » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballroom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ballroom » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ballroom is uncommon French at frequency #93,518 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catégorie de danse habituellement dansée dans les salons, les salles de bal, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ballroom in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ballroom, spelled B-A-L-L-R-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1Catégorie de danse habituellement dansée dans les salons, les salles de bal, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ballroom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais on voit des croisements avec une danse plus « sociale », comme le hip-hop ou, aujourd’hui, le voguing, le ballroom, mais aussi les danses de couple, les battles, les mouvements spontanés.
Vedette incontestée dans le milieu de la danse sportive, Jean-Marc Généreux est fier de pouvoir représenter le ballroom.
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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