backgammon
\bak.ɡa.mɔn\
The verdict
“backgammon” is uncommon French (frequency #93,514 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,514
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jeu de hasard raisonné pour deux joueurs qui se joue sur un plateau (tablier) avec des dés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | backgammon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bak.ɡa.mɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “backgammon” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
backgammon is uncommon French at frequency #93,514 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bak.ɡa.mɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeu de hasard raisonné pour deux joueurs qui se joue sur un plateau (tablier) avec des dés.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for backgammon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is backgammon, spelled B-A-C-K-G-A-M-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1Jeu de hasard raisonné pour deux joueurs qui se joue sur un plateau (tablier) avec des dés.
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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Using “backgammon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-C-K-G-A-M-M-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.