badar la figa
The verdict
“badar la figa” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Bayer aux corneilles, rester bouche bée et le regard vide, avec l’air idiot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badar la figa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [baˈðalaˈfiɣo̞] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “badar la figa” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for badar la figa is 13 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈðalaˈfiɣo̞]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bayer aux corneilles, rester bouche bée et le regard vide, avec l’air idiot.".
No misspelling variants are generated for badar la figa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is badar la figa, spelled B-A-D-A-R- -L-A- -F-I-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bayer aux corneilles, rester bouche bée et le regard vide, avec l’air idiot.
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Using “badar la figa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-D-A-R- -L-A- -F-I-G-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [baˈðalaˈfiɣo̞] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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