badaboum
\ba.da.bum\
The verdict
“badaboum” is uncommon French (frequency #88,353 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,353
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée dont on se sert, dans le langage familier, pour exprimer le bruit d’une chute semblable à un roulement de tambour, ou une explosion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-badaboum · badaboum · French
badaboum · rank #88,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,353
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bachi
Nearest frequency peer: bachi (-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 « badaboum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- baignes
baignes
11,645 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « badaboum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badaboum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \ba.da.bum\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « badaboum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
badaboum is uncommon French at frequency #88,353 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \ba.da.bum\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée dont on se sert, dans le langage familier, pour exprimer le bruit d’une chute semblable à un roulement de tambour, ou une explosion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for badaboum, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is badaboum, spelled B-A-D-A-B-O-U-M.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée dont on se sert, dans le langage familier, pour exprimer le bruit d’une chute semblable à un roulement de tambour, ou une explosion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badaboum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’hésite pas à susciter en moi les tentations les plus criminelles pour me donner le plaisir de les repousser : si je me levais en criant : « Badaboum ! » ?
En 2017, le pétard a fait un boom, avec 3 milliards de dollars de ventes légales. Mais, en 2018, badaboum ! « la légalisation du cannabis est un échec », écrivent « Les Echos » (27/2).
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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