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baccalaureat

/bækəˈlɔːɹɪət/noun

baccalaureat is spelled B-A-C-C-A-L-A-U-R-E-A-T: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, baccalaureat means “Alternative form of baccalaureate (“bachelor's degree”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of baccalaureat is baccalaureats.

How many letters and syllables are in baccalaureat?

Letters12: B-A-C-C-A-L-A-U-R-E-A-T
In writingabout once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is baccalaureat?

Baccalaureat appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce baccalaureat?

  • /bækəˈlɔːɹɪət/
  • /bækəˈlɔːɹiæ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of baccalaureat

  • baccalaureats plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does baccalaureat mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of baccalaureate (“bachelor's degree”).

  2. 2

    Alternative form of baccalaureate (“International Baccalaureate”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does baccalaureat come from?

From French baccalauréat or its source, Medieval Latin baccalaureatus, from Latin baccalaureus, an alteration of baccalarius (“young man aspiring to knighthood”) to resemble bacca lauri (“laurel berry”) (the ancient symbol of victory). Compare bachelor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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