baigneuse
\bɛ.ɲøz\
The verdict
“baigneuse” is an uncommon French word, ranked #88,357 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #88,357
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Celle qui se baigne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baigneuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.ɲøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baigneuse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baigneuse is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.ɲøz\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,357 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for baigneuse 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 baigneuse, spelled B-A-I-G-N-E-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle qui se baigne.
- 2Celui qui tenait des bains publics.
- 3Celle qui fait le service dans un établissement de bains chauds ou froids, aussi bien que dans un établissement de bains de mer.
- 4Peignoir de bain, sortie de bain.
- 5Bonnet de femme.
- 6Sorte de plis fait comme ceux des bonnets nommés baigneuses.
- 7Lit en forme de baignoire.
Synonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-G-N-E-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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