machine à boules
\ma.ʃin‿a bul\
The verdict
“machine à boules” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Billard électrique, flippeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machine-a-boules · machine à boules · French
machine à boules · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | machine à boules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃin‿a bul\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « machine à boules » en français
Rare enough to double-check
machine à boules is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʃin‿a bul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Billard électrique, flippeur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for machine à boules in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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, 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 machine à boules, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E- -À- -B-O-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Billard électrique, flippeur.
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.