badine
\ba.din\
The verdict
“badine” is uncommon French (frequency #51,902 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,902
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verge que l’on porte en guise de canne, ou dont on se sert pour fustiger ou cravacher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-badine · badine · French
badine · rank #51,902 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,902
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babines
Nearest frequency peer: babines (-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 « badine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- auteures
auteures
48,102 corpus weight
- autodestruc…
autodestruction
48,101 corpus weight
- babines
babines
48,100 corpus weight
- badine
badine
48,099 corpus weight
- bagarreur
bagarreur
48,098 corpus weight
- baiseur
baiseur
48,096 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « badine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | badine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.din\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « badine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
badine is uncommon French at frequency #51,902 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for badine in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is badine, spelled B-A-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Verge que l’on porte en guise de canne, ou dont on se sert pour fustiger ou cravacher.
- 2Se dit de pincettes fort légères.
- 3Se dit de pincettes pour le feu et dont font usage les serruriers, les taillandiers ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how badine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] tandis que Lucien faisait sauter, avec le bout de sa badine à pomme d’or incrustée de turquoise, les journaux dépliés.
En vain je parcourais les promenades d’un petit air vainqueur; je me dandinais, je frappais l’air de ma badine d’ébène, j’arrangeais mes cheveux, je dérangeais ma cravate; en un mot, je me donnais des grâces : rien n'y faisait.
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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