balthazar
\bal.ta.zaʁ\
The verdict
“balthazar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,295. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,295
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouteille de champagne qui contient l'équivalent de seize bouteilles ordinaires, soit 12 litres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balthazar · balthazar · French
balthazar · rank #32,295 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,295
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Balotelli
Nearest frequency peer: Balotelli (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « balthazar »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attendrais
attendrais
67,709 corpus weight
- automatismes
automatismes
67,708 corpus weight
- Balotelli
Balotelli
67,707 corpus weight
- balthazar
balthazar
67,706 corpus weight
- baptêmes
baptêmes
67,705 corpus weight
- bears
bears
67,703 corpus weight
What this shows « balthazar » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balthazar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bal.ta.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « balthazar »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around balthazar (IPA \bal.ta.zaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,295 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for balthazar, with forms such as "ablthazar", "balhtazar", and "ballthazar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Balthasar", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is balthazar, spelled B-A-L-T-H-A-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Bouteille de champagne qui contient l'équivalent de seize bouteilles ordinaires, soit 12 litres.
- 2Repas trop copieux, trop arrosé, très aviné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how balthazar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous n’aurons pas couru notre dernier hasard Sans faire un gueuleton… pardon ! un balthazar !
Nous fûmes heureux de voir apparaître le poisson frit, les fèves appétissantes (beans) et la salade, peu assaisonnée, qui commençaient notre balthazar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablthazar
- balhtazar
- ballthazar
- baltahzar
- balthaazr
- balthazarr
- balthazra
- balthazzar
- balthhazar
- balthzaar
- baltthazar
- batlhazar
- bbalthazar
- blathazar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balthazar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).