ouvrir le bal
The verdict
“ouvrir le bal” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Être le premier à danser, dans un bal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ouvrir le bal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.vʁiʁ lə bal\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ouvrir le bal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ouvrir le bal is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \u.vʁiʁ lə bal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for ouvrir le bal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ouvrir le bal, spelled O-U-V-R-I-R- -L-E- -B-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être le premier à danser, dans un bal.
- 2Commencer le premier ; débuter avant tous les autres.
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Using “ouvrir le bal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-U-V-R-I-R- -L-E- -B-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \u.vʁiʁ lə bal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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