Balma
\bal.ma\
The verdict
“Balma” is uncommon French (frequency #65,720 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,720
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Garonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balma · Balma · French
Balma · rank #65,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,720
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balayées
Nearest frequency peer: balayées (-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 « Balma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aznar
Aznar
34,284 corpus weight
- bada
bada
34,283 corpus weight
- balayées
balayées
34,282 corpus weight
- Balma
Balma
34,281 corpus weight
- balo
balo
34,280 corpus weight
- Barbezieux
Barbezieux
34,278 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Balma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Balma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bal.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Balma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Balma is uncommon French at frequency #65,720 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bal.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Garonne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Balma in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Balma, spelled B-A-L-M-A.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Garonne.
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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