backdoor
\bak.dɔʁ\
The verdict
“backdoor” is uncommon French (frequency #75,428 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,428
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de porte dérobée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-backdoor · backdoor · French
backdoor · rank #75,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,428
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH awake
Nearest frequency peer: awake (-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 « backdoor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Avignonnais
Avignonnais
24,576 corpus weight
- Avoriaz
Avoriaz
24,575 corpus weight
- awake
awake
24,574 corpus weight
- backdoor
backdoor
24,573 corpus weight
- bails
bails
24,572 corpus weight
- baltringue
baltringue
24,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « backdoor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | backdoor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bak.dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « backdoor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
backdoor is uncommon French at frequency #75,428 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bak.dɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de porte dérobée.".
backdoor doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is backdoor, spelled B-A-C-K-D-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de porte dérobée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how backdoor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À supposer même que les réseaux de la NSA ne soient plus pwned par les pirates informatiques du Directoire – […] - un certain ressentiment persistait depuis l'époque d'Edward Snowden et des backdoors planqués en douce un peu partout par les agents de la NSA.
Selon le site d’investigation FollowTheMoney, un hacker néerlandais pourrait avoir pris le contrôle de millions de panneaux solaires intelligents à l’aide d’un programme « backdoor », c’est-à-dire un programme informatique malveillant.
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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