babouins
\ba.bwɛ̃\
The verdict
“babouins” is uncommon French (frequency #57,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,095
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de babouin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babouins · babouins · French
babouins · rank #57,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,095
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baladait
Nearest frequency peer: baladait (+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 « babouins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attristée
attristée
42,909 corpus weight
- autocrate
autocrate
42,908 corpus weight
- babouins
babouins
42,906 corpus weight
- baladait
baladait
42,905 corpus weight
- bandai
bandai
42,904 corpus weight
- barbet
barbet
42,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babouins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babouins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.bwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babouins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babouins is uncommon French at frequency #57,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.bwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de babouin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for babouins in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is babouins, spelled B-A-B-O-U-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de babouin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how babouins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le maquasipa fut mangé au repas du soir, en même temps que deux autres singes, des babouins, dont la chair fut déclarée très savoureuse.
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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