backyard
\ˈbæk.ˈjɑːd\
The verdict
“backyard” is uncommon French (frequency #94,500 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,500
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jardin arrière, arrière-cour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-backyard · backyard · French
backyard · rank #94,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,500
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babos
Nearest frequency peer: babos (-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 « backyard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- AWACS
AWACS
5,504 corpus weight
- aïeuls
aïeuls
5,503 corpus weight
- babos
babos
5,502 corpus weight
- backyard
backyard
5,501 corpus weight
- badigeon
badigeon
5,500 corpus weight
- badinage
badinage
5,499 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « backyard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | backyard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbæk.ˈjɑːd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « backyard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
backyard is uncommon French at frequency #94,500 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbæk.ˈjɑːd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jardin arrière, arrière-cour.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for backyard, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is backyard, spelled B-A-C-K-Y-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Jardin arrière, arrière-cour.
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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