babylonien
\ba.bi.lɔ.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“babylonien” is uncommon French (frequency #68,838 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,838
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Babylone, qui habitait Babylone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babylonien · babylonien · French
babylonien · rank #68,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,838
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Babinet
Nearest frequency peer: Babinet (-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 « babylonien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Azov
Azov
31,166 corpus weight
- babi
babi
31,165 corpus weight
- Babinet
Babinet
31,164 corpus weight
- babylonien
babylonien
31,163 corpus weight
- balard
balard
31,162 corpus weight
- Balmont
Balmont
31,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « babylonien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | babylonien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.bi.lɔ.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « babylonien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
babylonien is uncommon French at frequency #68,838 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.bi.lɔ.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for babylonien in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 babylonien, spelled B-A-B-Y-L-O-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Babylone, qui habitait Babylone.
- 2Relatif à Babylone, qui habitait Babylone.
- 3Digne de Babylone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how babylonien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Souvent après quelque long tête-à-tête, Bonaparte le gardait à dîner, dans cette étrange salle à manger aux fresques effarantes, toute peinte et décorée d'armures babyloniennes, de boucliers romains, de framées sicambres, de claymores ossianesques.
Un des plus fameux exemples de texte numérique est une tablette d’époque paléo-babylonienne provenant probablement de Larsa (Plimpton 322), qui contient une liste de 15 triplets pythagoriciens tous indépendants les uns des autres, les nombres comportant jusqu’à 8 positions sexagésimales – voir article de E. Robson Words and Pictures: New Light on Plimpton…
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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