bafouent
\ba.fu\
The verdict
“bafouent” is uncommon French (frequency #79,077 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,077
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bafouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bafouent · bafouent · French
bafouent · rank #79,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,077
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bactériens
Nearest frequency peer: bactériens (-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 « bafouent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babs
babs
20,927 corpus weight
- Bache
Bache
20,926 corpus weight
- bactériens
bactériens
20,925 corpus weight
- bafouent
bafouent
20,924 corpus weight
- baisées
baisées
20,923 corpus weight
- ballasts
ballasts
20,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bafouent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bafouent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.fu\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bafouent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bafouent is uncommon French at frequency #79,077 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.fu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bafouent 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bafouent, spelled B-A-F-O-U-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bafouer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe bafouer.
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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