BADR
\be.a.de.ɛʁ\
The verdict
“BADR” is uncommon French (frequency #53,793 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,793
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Brigade de police spécialisée dans la sécurité routière et en particulier dans les délits de fuite et enquêtes concernant les accidents de la route avec des blessés ou des morts.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BADR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.a.de.ɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “BADR” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
BADR is uncommon French at frequency #53,793 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.a.de.ɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Brigade de police spécialisée dans la sécurité routière et en particulier dans les délits de fuite et enquêtes concernant les accidents de la route avec des blessés ou des morts.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for BADR, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is BADR, spelled B-A-D-R.
Definition
- 1Brigade de police spécialisée dans la sécurité routière et en particulier dans les délits de fuite et enquêtes concernant les accidents de la route avec des blessés ou des morts.
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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Using “BADR”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-D-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \be.a.de.ɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.