badigeonner
\ba.di.ʒɔ.ne\
The verdict
“badigeonner” is uncommon French (frequency #81,791 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,791
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peindre avec du badigeon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-badigeonner · badigeonner · French
badigeonner · rank #81,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,791
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH badi
Nearest frequency peer: badi (-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 « badigeonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bactriane
Bactriane
18,212 corpus weight
- badi
badi
18,211 corpus weight
- badigeonner
badigeonner
18,210 corpus weight
- baile
baile
18,208 corpus weight
- balançaient
balançaient
18,207 corpus weight
- ballotage
ballotage
18,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « badigeonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badigeonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.di.ʒɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « badigeonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
badigeonner is uncommon French at frequency #81,791 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.di.ʒɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for badigeonner, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is badigeonner, spelled B-A-D-I-G-E-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Peindre avec du badigeon.
- 2Enduire d’un onguent, d’une lotion, etc.
- 3Étendre une sauce, un corps gras ou un liquide à l'aide d'un pinceau de cuisine sur une préparation culinaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badigeonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi, dès qu’un paysan a réalisé une minime aisance, fait-il badigeonner d’ocre la façade et les murs intérieurs de son réduit : […].
Dans les caves déjà débarrassées de leur eau, arroser le sol avec du lait de chaux et badigeonner les murs.
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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