baa
\bɑː\
The verdict
“baa” is uncommon French (frequency #59,091 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,091
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bêlement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baa · baa · French
baa · rank #59,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,091
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Babacar
Nearest frequency peer: Babacar (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « baa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- automédicat…
automédication
40,915 corpus weight
- autoriserait
autoriserait
40,914 corpus weight
- azure
azure
40,913 corpus weight
- baa
baa
40,910 corpus weight
- Babacar
Babacar
40,909 corpus weight
- Balmain
Balmain
40,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baa is uncommon French at frequency #59,091 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bêlement.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for baa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is baa, spelled B-A-A.
Definition
- 1Bêlement.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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