bachata
\ba.ʃa.ta\
The verdict
“bachata” is uncommon French (frequency #87,348 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,348
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musique romantique de la République dominicaine, jouée par plusieurs guitares, accompagnées de percussions (bongo, maracas, guiro) et une basse, devenue populaire dans toute l'Amérique latine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bachata · bachata · French
bachata · rank #87,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,348
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bacilles
Nearest frequency peer: bacilles (+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 « bachata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avisez
avisez
12,658 corpus weight
- avéraient
avéraient
12,657 corpus weight
- Azara
Azara
12,656 corpus weight
- bachata
bachata
12,653 corpus weight
- bacilles
bacilles
12,652 corpus weight
- bagout
bagout
12,650 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bachata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bachata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʃa.ta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bachata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bachata is uncommon French at frequency #87,348 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʃa.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bachata in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bachata, spelled B-A-C-H-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Musique romantique de la République dominicaine, jouée par plusieurs guitares, accompagnées de percussions (bongo, maracas, guiro) et une basse, devenue populaire dans toute l'Amérique latine.
- 2Danse dansée sur cette musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bachata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Ça, c'est le refrain d'un tube que j'ai composé pour le groupe de bachata Monchy y Alexandra, explique-t-elle, toute fière. Alors que j'étais à l'hôpital, presque mourante, des tuyaux partout, j'ai composé ce thème.
35 professeurs spécialisés en salsa, bachata, dancehall ou hip-hop venant du monde entier dispensent en journée des cours aux adultes, aux enfants et pour la première fois cette année, aux seniors
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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