balustres
\ba.lystʁ\
The verdict
“balustres” is uncommon French (frequency #89,424 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,424
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de balustre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balustres · balustres · French
balustres · rank #89,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,424
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baku
Nearest frequency peer: baku (-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 « balustres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bacchanales
bacchanales
10,580 corpus weight
- bagot
bagot
10,579 corpus weight
- baku
baku
10,578 corpus weight
- balustres
balustres
10,577 corpus weight
- banalisées
banalisées
10,576 corpus weight
- bandent
bandent
10,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balustres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balustres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.lystʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balustres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balustres is uncommon French at frequency #89,424 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.lystʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de balustre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for balustres in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is balustres, spelled B-A-L-U-S-T-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de balustre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balustres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce quartier désert est traversé par un torrent étroit au lit profond, sur lequel sont jetés des petits ponts courbes aux balustres de granit rongés par le lichen.
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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