Ballet vs Ballea

Anna Claire is learning to read! She does great sounding out words. Today she asked me how to spell "ballet" and when I told her she said I couldn't be right. Her reasoning is very logical - there is no "t" sound at the end of the word. I went into a long explanation about the word being french etc... Knowing I had not convinced her I called my sister the English major. I will let her handle the inconsistencies of the English language because there are LOTS of them! Anna Claire offered this suggestion for the accurate spelling "ballea."