bagnard
\ba.ɲaʁ\
The verdict
“bagnard” is uncommon French (frequency #84,546 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,546
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne condamnée au bagne.
| 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) |
Where “bagnard” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bagnard is uncommon French at frequency #84,546 among 227,490 “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.
Synonyms
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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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Using “bagnard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-G-N-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.