bai
\bɛ\
The verdict
“bai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,454) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,454
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’un brun rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bai · bai · French
bai · rank #28,454 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,454
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bagnoles
Nearest frequency peer: bagnoles (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bai »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- austro
austro
71,551 corpus weight
- averse
averse
71,550 corpus weight
- bagnoles
bagnoles
71,548 corpus weight
- bai
bai
71,547 corpus weight
- baissant
baissant
71,546 corpus weight
- Barrett
Barrett
71,544 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bai » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bai »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bai is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \bɛ\. Frequency #28,454 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Qui est d’un brun rouge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bai in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "BD", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bai, spelled B-A-I.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’un brun rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un homme monté sur un cheval bai se détache au galop de la troupe des voleurs, et arrête son cheval tout court à cent pas de Castro.
Il haussa l’épaule et, sans attendre une réponse, alla flatter un cheval qui derrière nous mêlait sa robe baie au vert poussiéreux des trembles.
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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