Bages
\baʒ\
The verdict
“Bages” is uncommon French (frequency #83,620 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,620
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bages · Bages · French
Bages · rank #83,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,620
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH badaud
Nearest frequency peer: badaud (-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 « Bages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baccara
baccara
16,385 corpus weight
- bactéricide
bactéricide
16,384 corpus weight
- badaud
badaud
16,382 corpus weight
- Bages
Bages
16,381 corpus weight
- balayez
balayez
16,379 corpus weight
- balkanisati…
balkanisation
16,378 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bages is uncommon French at frequency #83,620 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \baʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Bages in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bages, spelled B-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales.
- 3Commune des Pyrénées-Orientales, en France.
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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