balustrade

\ba.lys.tʁad\

/\ba.lys.tʁad\/ noun

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The verdict

“balustrade” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,191
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
15
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suite, rangée de plusieurs balustres portant une tablette d’appui et servant d’ornement ou de clôture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-balustrade · balustrade · French

balustrade · rank #37,191 · 15 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,191
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH avérait

Nearest frequency peer: avérait (-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 « balustrade »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « balustrade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for balustrade
PropertyValue
Headwordbalustrade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.lys.tʁad\
Letters10
Frequency rank#37,191
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « balustrade »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).balustradese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « avérait » (#37,190), « baptise » (#37,193), « aulas » (#37,188). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « balustrade » est au #37,191. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around balustrade (IPA \ba.lys.tʁad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,191 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Suite, rangée de plusieurs balustres portant une tablette d’appui et servant d’ornement ou de clôture.
  2. 2
    Toute sorte de clôture qui est à jours et à hauteur d’appui.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how balustrade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […], et le chat gris, un peu sauvage, nous regardait de loin, à travers la balustrade de l’escalier au fond, sans oser descendre.
  2. Un énorme figuier faisait retomber comme un tapis par-dessus la balustrade ses branches cachées par les feuilles plates et ses fruits poudrés de lilas.

This word in other languages

balustrade(English)balaustrada(Español)Balustrade(Deutsch)

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.

ablustrade2ballustrade1balsutrade2balusrtade2balusstrade1balustarde2balustradde1balustraed2
Edit distance from "balustrade"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "balustrade"?
"balustrade" is spelled B-A-L-U-S-T-R-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.lys.tʁad\.
What does "balustrade" mean?
As a noun, "balustrade" means: Suite, rangée de plusieurs balustres portant une tablette d’appui et servant d’ornement ou de clôture.
What are common misspellings of "balustrade"?
Common misspellings include "ablustrade", "ballustrade", "balsutrade", "balusrtade", "balusstrade". The correct spelling is "balustrade".
How do you pronounce "balustrade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "balustrade" is \ba.lys.tʁad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "balustrade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "balustrade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

aubergiste#37,187astrologue#37,182brouillons#37,209champenois#37,222

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

braconniers15 variantscombattante15 variantséquivalant15 variantsépargnant15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list