backgammon
\bak.ɡa.mɔn\
The verdict
“backgammon” is uncommon French (frequency #93,514 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,514
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeu de hasard raisonné pour deux joueurs qui se joue sur un plateau (tablier) avec des dés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-backgammon · backgammon · French
backgammon · rank #93,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,514
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babeurre
Nearest frequency peer: babeurre (-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 « backgammon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- azalée
azalée
6,491 corpus weight
- Azergues
Azergues
6,490 corpus weight
- babeurre
babeurre
6,488 corpus weight
- backgammon
backgammon
6,487 corpus weight
- balaya
balaya
6,485 corpus weight
- balayeurs
balayeurs
6,484 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « backgammon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « backgammon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
backgammon is uncommon French at frequency #93,514 among 4,251 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how backgammon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toute cette grisaille l’a déprimé, et je lui ai fait passer le temps en jouant au backgammon jusqu’à l’arrivée de Perry.
Certes, de nombreux ludologues se sont penchés sur le cas et en ont déduit qu'il devait s'agir d'un ancêtre du jeu de l’oie, voire du backgammon ; certains ont même proposé, par déduction, un ensemble de règles.
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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