balustrades
\ba.lys.tʁad\
The verdict
“balustrades” is uncommon French (frequency #67,310 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,310
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de balustrade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balustrades · balustrades · French
balustrades · rank #67,310 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,310
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Azincourt
Nearest frequency peer: Azincourt (-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 « balustrades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aware
aware
32,695 corpus weight
- Aymen
Aymen
32,694 corpus weight
- Azincourt
Azincourt
32,693 corpus weight
- balustrades
balustrades
32,691 corpus weight
- bark
bark
32,689 corpus weight
- barrios
barrios
32,688 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balustrades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balustrades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lys.tʁad\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balustrades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balustrades is uncommon French at frequency #67,310 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lys.tʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de balustrade.".
No misspelling variants are generated for balustrades in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 balustrades, spelled B-A-L-U-S-T-R-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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.
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