bagatelle
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,239
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bagatelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chose de peu de prix et peu nécessaire. Pronounced \ba.ɡa.tɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagatelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɡa.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bagatelle is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ɡa.tɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,239 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for bagatelle, with forms such as "abgatelle", "baagtelle", and "bagaetlle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bagatelle, spelled B-A-G-A-T-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chose de peu de prix et peu nécessaire.
- 2Chose frivole et de peu d’importance.
- 3Choses qui n’ont pas toute l’importance, toute la gravité qu’on leur suppose.
- 4Amourette ou acte de faire l’amour.
- 5Exclamation, pour exprimer le doute, l’incertitude, ou pour marquer le peu de cas que l’on fait d’une menace.
- 6Meurtre ou assassinat. Expression d’origine sicilienne signifiant la liquidation d’une « taupe » ou d’un « moineau ».
- 7Composition brève, simple et légère.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abgatelle,baagtelle,bagaetlle,bagatele,bagatelel,bagatlele,bagattelle,baggatelle,bagtaelle,bbagatelle,bgaatelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bagatelle
Misspelling Variants of "bagatelle"
Frequency rank: #29,239 in French
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Nearby French words
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