Baghdad
\baɡ.dad\
The verdict
“Baghdad” is uncommon French (frequency #72,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,095
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de Bagdad.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baghdad · Baghdad · French
Baghdad · rank #72,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,095
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bagagiste
Nearest frequency peer: bagagiste (-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 « Baghdad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bacall
Bacall
27,909 corpus weight
- bactériolog…
bactériologie
27,908 corpus weight
- bagagiste
bagagiste
27,907 corpus weight
- Baghdad
Baghdad
27,906 corpus weight
- baigneuses
baigneuses
27,905 corpus weight
- baisait
baisait
27,904 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Baghdad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baghdad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baɡ.dad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Baghdad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Baghdad is uncommon French at frequency #72,095 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \baɡ.dad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de Bagdad.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Baghdad, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Baghdad, spelled B-A-G-H-D-A-D.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de Bagdad.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Baghdad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’oublie jamais ce que sont nos villes d’islam, La Mecque, Médine, Ispahan, Baghdad, Damas, Boukhara, Merv, Le Caire, Samarcande : rien que des oasis qu’un moment d’abandon ramènerait au désert. Constamment à la merci d’un vent de sable !
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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