babiole
\ba.bjɔl\
The verdict
“babiole” is uncommon French (frequency #97,684 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,684
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jouet d’enfants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babiole · babiole · French
babiole · rank #97,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,684
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baiseurs
Nearest frequency peer: baiseurs (+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 « babiole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aylan
Aylan
2,320 corpus weight
- Aztec
Aztec
2,319 corpus weight
- babiole
babiole
2,317 corpus weight
- baiseurs
baiseurs
2,316 corpus weight
- bake
bake
2,315 corpus weight
- Barma
Barma
2,314 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babiole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babiole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.bjɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babiole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babiole is uncommon French at frequency #97,684 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.bjɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for babiole, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is babiole, spelled B-A-B-I-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Jouet d’enfants.
- 2Chose de peu d’importance ou de peu de valeur, bagatelle, pacotille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how babiole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Donner des babioles à un enfant.
Elle s’arrêtait devant chaque magasin et restait à contempler les ceintures, les foulards, les boucles d’oreilles, les gants, et autres babioles exposées aux yeux, n’arrêtait pas de se retourner, lançait des regards autour d’elle et n’arrêtait pas de se retourner.
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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