Baïkal
\baj.kal\
The verdict
“Baïkal” is uncommon French (frequency #62,085 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,085
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lac de Russie situé dans le sud de la Sibérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baikal · Baïkal · French
Baïkal · rank #62,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,085
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baum
Nearest frequency peer: Baum (-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 « Baïkal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Baruch
Baruch
37,922 corpus weight
- Barèges
Barèges
37,921 corpus weight
- basketteurs
basketteurs
37,919 corpus weight
- Baum
Baum
37,917 corpus weight
- Baïkal
Baïkal
37,916 corpus weight
- bielle
bielle
37,911 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Baïkal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baïkal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baj.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Baïkal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Baïkal is uncommon French at frequency #62,085 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \baj.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lac de Russie situé dans le sud de la Sibérie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Baïkal in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Baïkal, spelled B-A-Ï-K-A-L.
Definition
- 1Lac de Russie situé dans le sud de la Sibérie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Baïkal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lac Baïkal est situé à dix-sept cents pieds au-dessus du niveau de la mer. […]. Cet immense bassin d’eau douce, alimenté par plus de trois cents rivières, est encadré dans un magnifique circuit de montagnes volcaniques. Il n’a d’autre déversoir que l’Angara, qui, après avoir passé à Irkoutsk, va se jeter dans l’Yeniseï, un peu en amont de la ville d’Ye…
Synonyms
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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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