babos
\ba.bos\
The verdict
“babos” is uncommon French (frequency #94,499 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,499
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune écologiste vivant en communauté, rejetant la société de consommation et voulant se rapprocher de la nature.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babos · babos · French
babos · rank #94,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,499
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aïeuls
Nearest frequency peer: aïeuls (-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 « babos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- AWACS
AWACS
5,504 corpus weight
- aïeuls
aïeuls
5,503 corpus weight
- babos
babos
5,502 corpus weight
- backyard
backyard
5,501 corpus weight
- badigeon
badigeon
5,500 corpus weight
- badinage
badinage
5,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.bos\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babos is uncommon French at frequency #94,499 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.bos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeune écologiste vivant en communauté, rejetant la société de consommation et voulant se rapprocher de la nature.".
babos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is babos, spelled B-A-B-O-S.
Definition
- 1Jeune écologiste vivant en communauté, rejetant la société de consommation et voulant se rapprocher de la nature.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how babos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À une heure trente de route de l’aéroport de Cancùn, à Tulum, l’ancienne cité précolombienne est devenue la terre promise des babos du monde entier. Ici, l’uniforme se résume au maillot, tongs Havaianas et dreadlocks.
C’est quoi, au juste, un babos? Une jeune femme de Faux-la-Montagne, arrivée sur le Plateau à l’âge adulte, se l’est fait expliquer : « La différence avec les babas cool des années 1970, c’est que ces derniers venaient pour élever des chèvres, mais ils venaient pour créer une petite économie. Le babos il a donc fait plein d’études, en général, il a des pa…
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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