bab
\bab\
The verdict
“bab” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,212) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,212
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baba cool.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bab · bab · French
bab · rank #25,212 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,212
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babel
Nearest frequency peer: babel (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bab »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- articulé
articulé
74,792 corpus weight
- assassine
assassine
74,791 corpus weight
- bab
bab
74,789 corpus weight
- babel
babel
74,788 corpus weight
- bailli
bailli
74,787 corpus weight
- bals
bals
74,786 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bab » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bab\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,212 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bab »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bab is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bab\. Frequency #25,212 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Baba cool.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bab, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "BD", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 bab, spelled B-A-B.
Definition
- 1Baba cool.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu'est-ce qu'un keupon, en quoi s'oppose-t-il au bab ? Qui sont les Béruriers Noirs ? A quoi sert un goumi ? Si vous donnez votre langue au chat, vous appartenez à l'espèce des environnants.
C'était le rendez-vous des babs, des routards, des beatniks en partance pour les Indes. Les minibus se garaient en face.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).