babillard
\ba.bi.jaʁ\
The verdict
“babillard” is uncommon French (frequency #98,773 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,773
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime à babiller, à converser par plaisir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babillard · babillard · French
babillard · rank #98,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,773
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aéropostale
Nearest frequency peer: aéropostale (-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 « babillard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- azazel
azazel
1,231 corpus weight
- azotée
azotée
1,230 corpus weight
- aéropostale
aéropostale
1,229 corpus weight
- babillard
babillard
1,228 corpus weight
- backend
backend
1,227 corpus weight
- Badois
Badois
1,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babillard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babillard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.bi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babillard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babillard is uncommon French at frequency #98,773 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.bi.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
babillard has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is babillard, spelled B-A-B-I-L-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui aime à babiller, à converser par plaisir.
- 2Qualifie un oiseau parleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how babillard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mettons dans la même classe les dialecticiens et les sophistes, gens qui font plus de bruit que tous les chaudrons de Dodone, et dont le moins babillard pourrait tenir tête aux vingt plus bavardes commères qu’on puisse trouver sous le ciel.
Silvia.—Eh bien, l’honneur de lui plaire ne me sera pas inutile ; les valets sont naturellement indiscrets ; l’amour est babillard, et j’en ferai l’historien de son maître.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).