badiane
\ba.djan\
The verdict
“badiane” is uncommon French (frequency #88,354 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,354
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plantes (Illicium spp.) de la famille des schisandracées, dont les fruits sont appelés « anis étoilé »; on distingue la badiane chinoise (Illicium verum), issu du badianier de Chine dont l...
Corpus desk
Index FR-badiane · badiane · French
badiane · rank #88,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,354
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH badaboum
Nearest frequency peer: badaboum (-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 « badiane »
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 « badiane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badiane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.djan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « badiane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
badiane is uncommon French at frequency #88,354 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.djan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for badiane, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is badiane, spelled B-A-D-I-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de plantes (Illicium spp.) de la famille des schisandracées, dont les fruits sont appelés « anis étoilé »; on distingue la badiane chinoise (Illicium verum), issu du badianier de Chine dont le fruit donne l’épice comestible, et la badiane japonaise (I. anisatum), ou faux badianier, qui est toxique.
- 2Fruit de la badiane chinoise (Illicium verum) utilisé comme épice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badiane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’anis étoilé ou badiane croît au Tonkin, en Annam, dans la Chine du Sud. Cet arbuste donne des fruits qui sont cueillis avant maturité, séchés sur des claies puis distillés.
La badiane sert à faire l’anisette de Hollande.
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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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