badaud
\ba.do\
The verdict
“badaud” is uncommon French (frequency #83,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,619
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Niais qui admire tout, s’amuse à tout, qui est d’une curiosité frivole. ^([1])
Corpus desk
Index FR-badaud · badaud · French
badaud · rank #83,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,619
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bages
Nearest frequency peer: Bages (+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 « badaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bacca
bacca
16,386 corpus weight
- baccara
baccara
16,385 corpus weight
- bactéricide
bactéricide
16,384 corpus weight
- badaud
badaud
16,382 corpus weight
- Bages
Bages
16,381 corpus weight
- balayez
balayez
16,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « badaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.do\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « badaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
badaud is uncommon French at frequency #83,619 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
badaud has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is badaud, spelled B-A-D-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Niais qui admire tout, s’amuse à tout, qui est d’une curiosité frivole. ^([1])
- 2Flâneur qui passe le temps en regardant tout ce qui lui semble extraordinaire ou nouveau. ^([2])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badaud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par ces temps de pantagruélisme, où le succès, chez nous, est aux bateleurs, où la gloire est aux clowns, où le trapèze de Léotard fait merveille, où Blondin triomphe sur la corde roide, les badauds des deux mondes trouveraient peut-être encore des émotions neuves au spectacle des exercices de force et d’adresse des Cingalais.
— Autour d’elle l’air est tout jeune et sent bon, comme le vent qui frivole dans les pommiers fleuris. — Eh badaud ! C’est qu’elle se met de l’eau de Cologne !
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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