bacha

\ba.ʃa\

/\ba.ʃa\/ noun

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The verdict

“bacha” is uncommon French (frequency #70,408 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,408
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la papeterie ancienne, alimentation en eau lors du trempage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bacha · bacha · French

bacha · rank #70,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,408
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Avold

Nearest frequency peer: Avold (-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 « bacha »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bacha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bacha
PropertyValue
Headwordbacha
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ʃa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#70,408
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bacha » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.bachatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Avold » (#70,407), « bactériologiques » (#70,409), « avariée » (#70,406). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bacha » est au #70,408. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bacha is uncommon French at frequency #70,408 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans la papeterie ancienne, alimentation en eau lors du trempage.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bacha, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bacha, spelled B-A-C-H-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dans la papeterie ancienne, alimentation en eau lors du trempage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how bacha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cette salle ou cave est divisée en deux parties par une muraille de cinq piés d’élevation ; la plus petite partie K qu’on appelle bacha, dans laquelle on met tremper le chiffon, a vers le fond une ouverture fermée d’une pelle A, par laquelle on laisse écouler l’eau qui a servi à tremper le chiffon, quand il a été suffisamment submergé, & le laisser à sec…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bacha"?
"bacha" is spelled B-A-C-H-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ʃa\.
What does "bacha" mean?
As a noun, "bacha" means: Dans la papeterie ancienne, alimentation en eau lors du trempage.
How do you pronounce "bacha"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bacha" is \ba.ʃa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bacha" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bacha", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Avold#70,407barda#70,414barjo#70,415arion#70,392

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list