baggy

\ba.ɡi\

/\ba.ɡi\/ noun

The verdict

“baggy” is uncommon French (frequency #71,268 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,268
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de pantalon à taille basse, le souvent réalisé en coupe droite au confort très large des hanches jusqu'au bas de pantalon.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baggy · baggy · French

baggy · rank #71,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,268
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bacillus

Nearest frequency peer: bacillus (-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 « baggy »

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 « baggy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for baggy
PropertyValue
Headwordbaggy
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ɡi\
Letters5
Frequency rank#71,268
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « baggy » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).baggytombe 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: « bacillus » (#71,267), « baignades » (#71,269), « Baader » (#71,266). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baggy » est au #71,268. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

baggy is uncommon French at frequency #71,268 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ɡi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for baggy, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is baggy, spelled B-A-G-G-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de pantalon à taille basse, le souvent réalisé en coupe droite au confort très large des hanches jusqu'au bas de pantalon.
  2. 2
    Genre musical influencé par le Madchester ayant émergé à la fin des années 1980 au Royaume-Uni à Manchester.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. T’es en lingerie fine sous ton baggy, arrête de faire ton fou sur ma messagerie
  2. Qui sait ce que penseraient nos boursouflés aïeux des slims et des baggies ?

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 "baggy"?
"baggy" is spelled B-A-G-G-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ɡi\.
What does "baggy" mean?
As a noun, "baggy" means: Sorte de pantalon à taille basse, le souvent réalisé en coupe droite au confort très large des hanches jusqu'au bas de pantalon.
How do you pronounce "baggy"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baggy" is \ba.ɡi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baggy" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list