machines à boules
\ma.ʃin‿a bul\
The verdict
“machines 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de machine à boules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machines-a-boules · machines à boules · French
machines à boules · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 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 | machines à boules |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃin‿a bul\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
machines 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: "Pluriel de machine à boules.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for machines à boules in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is machines à boules, spelled M-A-C-H-I-N-E-S- -À- -B-O-U-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de machine à boules.
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.