bagarreur

\ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\

/\ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“bagarreur” is uncommon French (frequency #51,903 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,903
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui cherche à se bagarrer, qui aime se battre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bagarreur · bagarreur · French

bagarreur · rank #51,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,903
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH badine

Nearest frequency peer: badine (-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 « bagarreur »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bagarreur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bagarreur
PropertyValue
Headwordbagarreur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#51,903
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bagarreur » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bagarreurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « badine » (#51,902), « babines » (#51,901), « baiseur » (#51,905). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bagarreur » est au #51,903. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bagarreur is uncommon French at frequency #51,903 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui cherche à se bagarrer, qui aime se battre.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bagarreur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bagarreur, spelled B-A-G-A-R-R-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui cherche à se bagarrer, qui aime se battre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bagarreur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il a un caractère bagarreur.
  2. Jusque là, il avait connu les vagues idylles moitié rieuses, moitié bagarreuses, où l’on ramasse ensemble les myrtilles, renverse sournoisement un panier, et barbouille de force les visages et les mains.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bagarreur"?
"bagarreur" is spelled B-A-G-A-R-R-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\.
What does "bagarreur" mean?
As an adjective, "bagarreur" means: Qui cherche à se bagarrer, qui aime se battre.
How do you pronounce "bagarreur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bagarreur" is \ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bagarreur" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bagarreur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list