baie des Cochons
\bɛ de kɔ.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“baie des Cochons” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Baie située sur la côte méridionale de Cuba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baie des Cochons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bɛ de kɔ.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baie des Cochons” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baie des Cochons is 16 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ de kɔ.ʃɔ̃\. 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: "Baie située sur la côte méridionale de Cuba.".
No misspelling variants are generated for baie des Cochons 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 baie des Cochons, spelled B-A-I-E- -D-E-S- -C-O-C-H-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Baie située sur la côte méridionale de Cuba.
This word in other languages
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Using “baie des Cochons”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-E- -D-E-S- -C-O-C-H-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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