baba
\ba.ba\
The verdict
“baba” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,860) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,860
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frappé d'un vif étonnement, ébahi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baba · baba · French
baba · rank #14,860 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,860
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH avalanche
Nearest frequency peer: avalanche (-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 « baba »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- associant
associant
85,144 corpus weight
- autrichiens
autrichiens
85,143 corpus weight
- avalanche
avalanche
85,142 corpus weight
- baba
baba
85,141 corpus weight
- Bangkok
Bangkok
85,139 corpus weight
- Bernie
Bernie
85,138 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « baba » 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 | baba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.ba\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « baba »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for baba is neighbouring look-alikes ("bb", "bas", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ba.ba\. Frequency #14,860 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Frappé d'un vif étonnement, ébahi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for baba, with forms such as "baab", "babba", and "bbaa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bb", "bas", "bah", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is baba, spelled B-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Frappé d'un vif étonnement, ébahi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– […] On veut le dépouiller de sa fortune et le laisser là comme Baba ; vous savez de qui je veux parler.
Puis bu à la terrasse avec le Rouquin, Jungbl. et son frère. Parlé de mon poème ébauché. Ils en sont baba.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baab
- babba
- bbaa
- bbaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baba - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baba", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).