badigeon
\ba.di.ʒɔ̃\
The verdict
“badigeon” is uncommon French (frequency #94,501 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,501
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couleur en détrempe dont on peint les murailles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-badigeon · badigeon · French
badigeon · rank #94,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH backyard
Nearest frequency peer: backyard (-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 « badigeon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- baha
baha
5,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « badigeon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badigeon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.di.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « badigeon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
badigeon is uncommon French at frequency #94,501 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.di.ʒɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Couleur en détrempe dont on peint les murailles.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for badigeon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 badigeon, spelled B-A-D-I-G-E-O-N.
Definition
- 1Couleur en détrempe dont on peint les murailles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badigeon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le badigeon, au grand désappointement des voyageurs et des antiquaires, règne en souverain à Séville ; les maisons mettent trois, quatre fois par an des chemises de chaux, ce qui leur donne un air de soin et de propreté, mais dérobe aux investigations les restes des sculptures arabes et gothiques qui les ornaient anciennement.
Une église qui serait passable, d’ailleurs, si elle n’était encroûtée par le plus épais des badigeons qu’aient jamais rêvés les conseils de fabrique.
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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