Bahrain
\ˈbɑxrɑin\
The verdict
“Bahrain” is uncommon French (frequency #58,437 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,437
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bahreïn (pays).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bahrain · Bahrain · French
Bahrain · rank #58,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,437
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bais
Nearest frequency peer: bais (+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 « Bahrain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babar
babar
41,567 corpus weight
- bactérien
bactérien
41,566 corpus weight
- Bahrain
Bahrain
41,564 corpus weight
- bais
bais
41,563 corpus weight
- baissière
baissière
41,562 corpus weight
- baleiniers
baleiniers
41,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bahrain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bahrain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɑxrɑin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bahrain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bahrain is uncommon French at frequency #58,437 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈbɑxrɑin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bahreïn (pays).".
Bahrain has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Bahrain, spelled B-A-H-R-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Bahreïn (pays).
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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