babi
\bɑ.bi\
The verdict
“babi” is uncommon French (frequency #68,836 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,836
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adepte du babisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babi · babi · French
babi · rank #68,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,836
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Azov
Nearest frequency peer: Azov (-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 « babi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avirons
avirons
31,167 corpus weight
- Azov
Azov
31,166 corpus weight
- babi
babi
31,165 corpus weight
- Babinet
Babinet
31,164 corpus weight
- babylonien
babylonien
31,163 corpus weight
- balard
balard
31,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ.bi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babi is uncommon French at frequency #68,836 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Adepte du babisme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for babi in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is babi, spelled B-A-B-I.
Definition
- 1Adepte du babisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how babi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un second babi tira immédiatement sur le shah qui n’échappa à la mort que grâce à la présence d’esprit d’un de ses officiers accouru assez tôt pour détourner le bras du meurtrier.
Les babis forment une secte très-répandue en Perse ; formaient, dirait-on dans le langage officiel car il est convenu que, depuis 1852, la secte est éteinte. A quoi, sans cela, auraient servi tant de décrets rendus contre elle, et tant de supplices ?
This word in other languages
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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