ballu
\ˈbal.lu\
The verdict
“ballu” is uncommon French (frequency #84,551 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,551
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse, bal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ballu · ballu · French
ballu · rank #84,551 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,551
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balloon
Nearest frequency peer: balloon (-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 « ballu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baissons
baissons
15,453 corpus weight
- balloon
balloon
15,451 corpus weight
- ballu
ballu
15,450 corpus weight
- baratte
baratte
15,449 corpus weight
- barboter
barboter
15,448 corpus weight
- barcelonaise
barcelonaise
15,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ballu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ballu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbal.lu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ballu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ballu is uncommon French at frequency #84,551 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbal.lu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Danse, bal.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ballu, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 ballu, spelled B-A-L-L-U.
Definition
- 1Danse, bal.
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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