du balai
\dy ba.lɛ\
The verdict
“du balai” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cette interjection s’utilise pour ordonner à quelqu’un de partir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-du-balai · du balai · French
du balai · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | du balai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \dy ba.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « du balai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
du balai is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \dy ba.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cette interjection s’utilise pour ordonner à quelqu’un de partir.".
du balai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is du balai, spelled D-U- -B-A-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1Cette interjection s’utilise pour ordonner à quelqu’un de partir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how du balai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’est-ce que tu fais encore là, toi ? Allez, du balai !
— Allez, mon pote, du vent. Allez, du balai. Si on ne t’a pas appris la politesse à Oxford Cambridge, je vais t’en toucher deux mots.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.