balustrade
\ba.lys.tʁad\
The verdict
“balustrade” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #37,191 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #37,191
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Suite, rangée de plusieurs balustres portant une tablette d’appui et servant d’ornement ou de clôture.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balustrade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lys.tʁad\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #37,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “balustrade” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for balustrade is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.lys.tʁad\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,191 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for balustrade, with forms such as "ablustrade", "ballustrade", and "balsutrade". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is balustrade, spelled B-A-L-U-S-T-R-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Suite, rangée de plusieurs balustres portant une tablette d’appui et servant d’ornement ou de clôture.
- 2Toute sorte de clôture qui est à jours et à hauteur d’appui.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablustrade,ballustrade,balsutrade,balusrtade,balusstrade,balustarde,balustradde,balustraed,balustrdae,balustrrade,balusttrade,balutsrade,baulstrade,bbalustrade,blaustrade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balustrade - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “balustrade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-L-U-S-T-R-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.lys.tʁad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.