baluchon
\ba.ly.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“baluchon” is uncommon French (frequency #68,066 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,066
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit paquet de hardes que l’on porte le plus souvent à la main.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baluchon · baluchon · French
baluchon · rank #68,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,066
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basaltiques
Nearest frequency peer: basaltiques (+2 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 « baluchon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- augment
augment
31,940 corpus weight
- avenida
avenida
31,939 corpus weight
- bagarrer
bagarrer
31,938 corpus weight
- baluchon
baluchon
31,935 corpus weight
- basaltiques
basaltiques
31,933 corpus weight
- bazas
bazas
31,931 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baluchon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baluchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ly.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baluchon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baluchon is uncommon French at frequency #68,066 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ly.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
baluchon has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is baluchon, spelled B-A-L-U-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Petit paquet de hardes que l’on porte le plus souvent à la main.
- 2Équipement de voyage composé d'un sac, souvent en toile, attaché au bout d'un bâton ; ce bâton étant posé sur l’épaule et le sac pendant à l’arrière.
- 3Bagage léger.
- 4Connaissances que l’on possède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baluchon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voyons, laisse là ton baluchon, tu ne vas pas l’emporter ce soir. Où irais-tu d’ailleurs ?
[…]; puis le vingt-cinq au soir, son sac d’outils en bandoulière et son baluchon sur l’épaule, il fit au bistro et à ses clients des adieux ironiques et rien moins que polis : […]
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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