badinage
\ba.di.naʒ\
The verdict
“badinage” is uncommon French (frequency #94,502 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,502
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de badiner, propos léger, qui ne prête pas à conséquences.
Corpus desk
Index FR-badinage · badinage · French
badinage · rank #94,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,502
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH badigeon
Nearest frequency peer: badigeon (-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 « badinage »
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 « badinage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badinage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.di.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « badinage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
badinage is uncommon French at frequency #94,502 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.di.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
badinage has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is badinage, spelled B-A-D-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de badiner, propos léger, qui ne prête pas à conséquences.
- 2Tâche qui se réalise sans peine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badinage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ce point de vue, on appercevra que les raisonnements que l’on vient d’exposer ne sont que des sophismes frivoles, ou un badinage de l’esprit, fort déplacé dans l’examen d’une matière si importante.
Je prétends faire un exemple qui frappe de terreur chaque drôle qui voudrait convertir en badinage la chose sérieuse.
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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