bagnard
\ba.ɲaʁ\
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
- babtous
babtous
15,458 corpus weight
- baccalauréa…
baccalauréats
15,457 corpus weight
- baclofène
baclofène
15,456 corpus weight
- bagnard
bagnard
15,455 corpus weight
- baissaient
baissaient
15,454 corpus weight
- baissons
baissons
15,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bagnard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bagnard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɲaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bagnard » en français
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
- 1Personne condamnée au bagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bagnard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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