bagarreur
\ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\
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
- 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
- baladant
baladant
48,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bagarreur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagarreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.ɡa.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bagarreur » en français
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
- 1Qui cherche à se bagarrer, qui aime se battre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bagarreur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a un caractère bagarreur.
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.
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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