babou
\bɐ.bˈoʊ̯\
The verdict
“babou” is uncommon French (frequency #54,422 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,422
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de babar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babou · babou · French
babou · rank #54,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,422
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babyloniens
Nearest frequency peer: babyloniens (+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 « babou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aérospatial
aérospatial
45,582 corpus weight
- aérée
aérée
45,581 corpus weight
- babou
babou
45,579 corpus weight
- babyloniens
babyloniens
45,578 corpus weight
- barnum
barnum
45,577 corpus weight
- Batum
Batum
45,576 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɐ.bˈoʊ̯\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babou is uncommon French at frequency #54,422 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɐ.bˈoʊ̯\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de babar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for babou, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is babou, spelled B-A-B-O-U.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de babar.
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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