baguette de tradition
The verdict
“baguette de tradition” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Baguette de pain de tradition française dont la fabrication est protégée par une loi, et ne doit être composée que de farine de blé, d’eau, de sel, de levure et de levain (la levure et le levain ét...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baguette de tradition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɡɛt də tʁa.di.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baguette de tradition” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baguette de tradition is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.ɡɛt də tʁa.di.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Baguette de pain de tradition française dont la fabrication est protégée par une loi, et ne doit être composée que de farine de blé, d’eau, de sel, de levure et de levain (la levure et le levain ét...".
No misspelling variants are generated for baguette de tradition in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is baguette de tradition, spelled B-A-G-U-E-T-T-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Baguette de pain de tradition française dont la fabrication est protégée par une loi, et ne doit être composée que de farine de blé, d’eau, de sel, de levure et de levain (la levure et le levain étant échangeables).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-G-U-E-T-T-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-D-I-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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