babu
The verdict
“babu” is uncommon French (frequency #89,420 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,420
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En Inde, titre équivalent à Monsieur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “babu” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
babu is uncommon French at frequency #89,420 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for babu, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is babu, spelled B-A-B-U.
Definition
- 1En Inde, titre équivalent à Monsieur.
- 2Sous l’administration anglaise, désigne un fonctionnaire indigène.
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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Using “babu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-B-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.