bagagiste
\ba.ɡa.ʒist\
The verdict
“bagagiste” is uncommon French (frequency #72,094 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,094
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui s’occupe des bagages dans un aéroport ou dans un hôtel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bagagiste · bagagiste · French
bagagiste · rank #72,094 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,094
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bactériologie
Nearest frequency peer: bactériologie (-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 « bagagiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- axiomatique
axiomatique
27,910 corpus weight
- Bacall
Bacall
27,909 corpus weight
- bactériolog…
bactériologie
27,908 corpus weight
- bagagiste
bagagiste
27,907 corpus weight
- Baghdad
Baghdad
27,906 corpus weight
- baigneuses
baigneuses
27,905 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bagagiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagagiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɡa.ʒist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bagagiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bagagiste is uncommon French at frequency #72,094 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ɡa.ʒist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bagagiste, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bagagiste, spelled B-A-G-A-G-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui s’occupe des bagages dans un aéroport ou dans un hôtel.
- 2Personne chargée de transporter les denrées, les sacs ou les bagagistes, dans les marchés.
- 3Fabricant de bagages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bagagiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois les chariots chargés, un bagagiste tractoriste les amène à l’avion en conduisant un engin spécial à la conduite sur piste et galeries.
Le bagagiste sort les bagages du véhicule, et les transporte jusqu’à la chambre, qu’il fait visiter aux clients.
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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