balo
\ba.lo\
The verdict
“balo” is uncommon French (frequency #65,721 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,721
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nourriture, vivres, alimentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balo · balo · French
balo · rank #65,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,721
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Balma
Nearest frequency peer: Balma (-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 « balo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- barcelonnet…
barcelonnette
34,277 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balo is uncommon French at frequency #65,721 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nourriture, vivres, alimentation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for balo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is balo, spelled B-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Nourriture, vivres, alimentation.
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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