bagnard

\ba.ɲaʁ\

/\ba.ɲaʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“bagnard” is uncommon French (frequency #84,546 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,546
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne condamnée au bagne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bagnard · bagnard · French

bagnard · rank #84,546 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,546
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH baclofène

Nearest frequency peer: baclofène (-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 « bagnard »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bagnard
PropertyValue
Headwordbagnard
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.ɲaʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#84,546
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bagnard » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.bagnardtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « baclofène » (#84,545), « baissaient » (#84,547), « baccalauréats » (#84,544). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bagnard » est au #84,546. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bagnard is uncommon French at frequency #84,546 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ɲaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne condamnée au bagne.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bagnard in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bagnard, spelled B-A-G-N-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne condamnée au bagne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Bagnard, au bagne de Vauban Dans l’île de Ré Je mange du pain noir et des murs blancs Dans l’île de Ré A la ville m’attend ma mignonne Mais dans vingt ans Pour elle je ne serai plus personne Merde à Vauban Bagnard, je suis, chaîne et boulet Tout ça pour rien, Ils m’ont serré dans l’île de Ré C’est pour mon bien On y voit passer les nuages Qui vont crevant…

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bagnard"?
"bagnard" is spelled B-A-G-N-A-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.ɲaʁ\.
What does "bagnard" mean?
As a noun, "bagnard" means: Personne condamnée au bagne.
How do you pronounce "bagnard"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bagnard" is \ba.ɲaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list