balte
\balt\
The verdict
“balte” is uncommon French (frequency #64,950 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,950
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De Lettonie, de Lituanie ou d’Estonie (collectivement appelées pays baltes).
Corpus desk
Index FR-balte · balte · French
balte · rank #64,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,950
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbituriques
Nearest frequency peer: barbituriques (+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 « balte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baissier
baissier
35,053 corpus weight
- balte
balte
35,051 corpus weight
- barbituriqu…
barbituriques
35,050 corpus weight
- bardes
bardes
35,049 corpus weight
- basal
basal
35,047 corpus weight
- batch
batch
35,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \balt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balte is uncommon French at frequency #64,950 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \balt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for balte, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is balte, spelled B-A-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1De Lettonie, de Lituanie ou d’Estonie (collectivement appelées pays baltes).
- 2Des langues lettonne et lituanienne, et autres langues mortes, qui forment une branche de l’indo-européen commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les langues baltes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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