bachi
\ba.ʃi\
The verdict
“bachi” is uncommon French (frequency #88,352 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,352
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bonnet de marin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bachi · bachi · French
bachi · rank #88,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,352
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aéronaval
Nearest frequency peer: aéronaval (-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 « bachi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aylin
Aylin
11,653 corpus weight
- aéronaval
aéronaval
11,650 corpus weight
- bachi
bachi
11,649 corpus weight
- badaboum
badaboum
11,648 corpus weight
- badiane
badiane
11,647 corpus weight
- bafouiller
bafouiller
11,646 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bachi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bachi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bachi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bachi is uncommon French at frequency #88,352 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bonnet de marin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bachi in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bachi, spelled B-A-C-H-I.
Definition
- 1Bonnet de marin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bachi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On en a ras le bachi !
Sur le bachi vissé sur ma tête s’étalait en lettres dorées L’ÉTOURDI. Tels les bœufs marqués au fer rouge, je me désignais aux yeux des passants comme le distrait, l’écervelé, la tête de linotte. Dans les rues d’Alger, d’Oran ou d’ailleurs, je me promenais avec cette enseigne d’or sur le front.
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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