babar
\bɐ.bˈaɾ\
The verdict
“babar” is uncommon French (frequency #58,434 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,434
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Baver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babar · babar · French
babar · rank #58,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,434
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bactérien
Nearest frequency peer: bactérien (+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 « babar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ayer
ayer
41,571 corpus weight
- Azawad
Azawad
41,570 corpus weight
- babar
babar
41,567 corpus weight
- bactérien
bactérien
41,566 corpus weight
- Bahrain
Bahrain
41,564 corpus weight
- bais
bais
41,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɐ.bˈaɾ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babar is uncommon French at frequency #58,434 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɐ.bˈaɾ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
babar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 babar, spelled B-A-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1Baver.
- 2Se baver dessus.
- 3Se passionner.
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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