bâlois
\bɑ.lwa\
The verdict
“bâlois” is uncommon French (frequency #62,830 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,830
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Bâle ou aux Bâlois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balois · bâlois · French
bâlois · rank #62,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,830
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bénard
Nearest frequency peer: bénard (+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 « bâlois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bruxelloises
bruxelloises
37,174 corpus weight
- buena
buena
37,173 corpus weight
- bâlois
bâlois
37,171 corpus weight
- bénard
bénard
37,170 corpus weight
- bénédictines
bénédictines
37,169 corpus weight
- camaïeu
camaïeu
37,167 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bâlois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bâlois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɑ.lwa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bâlois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bâlois is uncommon French at frequency #62,830 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɑ.lwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à Bâle ou aux Bâlois.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bâlois, 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 tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bâlois, spelled B-Â-L-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Bâle ou aux Bâlois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bâlois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En visite à Paris le 23 mars 2015, la conseillère fédérale suisse Doris Leuthard avait, elle aussi, fait part à son homologue française des inquiétudes de la région bâloise.
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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