Baïkonour
\baj.kɔ.nuʁ\
The verdict
“Baïkonour” is uncommon French (frequency #79,085 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,085
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Kazakhstan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baikonour · Baïkonour · French
Baïkonour · rank #79,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,085
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH batu
Nearest frequency peer: batu (-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 « Baïkonour »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bardon
bardon
20,920 corpus weight
- basaltique
basaltique
20,919 corpus weight
- basiquement
basiquement
20,918 corpus weight
- batu
batu
20,917 corpus weight
- Baïkonour
Baïkonour
20,916 corpus weight
- beata
beata
20,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Baïkonour » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baïkonour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baj.kɔ.nuʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Baïkonour » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Baïkonour is uncommon French at frequency #79,085 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \baj.kɔ.nuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Baïkonour doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Baïkonour, spelled B-A-Ï-K-O-N-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Ville du Kazakhstan.
- 2Base de lancement de fusées.
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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