baltringue
\bal.tʁɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“baltringue” is uncommon French (frequency #75,430 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,430
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui n’a pas de parole, incompétent, incapable, peureux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baltringue · baltringue · French
baltringue · rank #75,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,430
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bails
Nearest frequency peer: bails (-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 « baltringue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- awake
awake
24,574 corpus weight
- backdoor
backdoor
24,573 corpus weight
- bails
bails
24,572 corpus weight
- baltringue
baltringue
24,571 corpus weight
- barka
barka
24,570 corpus weight
- basa
basa
24,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baltringue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baltringue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bal.tʁɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baltringue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baltringue is uncommon French at frequency #75,430 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bal.tʁɛ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for baltringue, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is baltringue, spelled B-A-L-T-R-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui n’a pas de parole, incompétent, incapable, peureux.
- 2Dans le monde du cirque, personne en charge du montage et démontage du chapiteau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baltringue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les peines encourues étaient énormes par rapport au butin. Il chercha quel mot qualifierait le mieux Poulou et Gino. « Baltringues » lui sembla le plus congruent. Lui qui détestait les romans policiers s'était embringué avec des baltringues. A présent le plus urgent était de toucher sa part ridicule et de leur fausser compagnie.
Et pendant un quart d’heure, l'autre l’avait flingué, traitant ses hommes de chèvres, de baltringues, incapables d’élucider une affaire, menaçant tout ce beau monde de finir dans les bureaux de police les plus pourris et éloignés de banlieue si aucune avancée significative n'intervenait avant une semaine.
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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