balou
\bɐ.lˈoʊ̯\
The verdict
“balou” is uncommon French (frequency #95,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,581
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de balar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balou · balou · French
balou · rank #95,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,581
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banier
Nearest frequency peer: banier (+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 « balou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ayako
Ayako
4,425 corpus weight
- ayumi
ayumi
4,424 corpus weight
- aéroplanes
aéroplanes
4,423 corpus weight
- aéroportées
aéroportées
4,422 corpus weight
- balou
balou
4,420 corpus weight
- banier
banier
4,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɐ.lˈoʊ̯\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balou is uncommon French at frequency #95,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɐ.lˈoʊ̯\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de balar.".
Zero misspellings are on record for balou in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is balou, spelled B-A-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de balar.
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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