bâillement
\bɑj.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“bâillement” is uncommon French (frequency #63,586 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,586
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de bâiller, par fatigue ou pour exprimer son ennui ou un état de bien-être caractérisé par le repos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baillement · bâillement · French
bâillement · rank #63,586 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,586
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Busquets
Nearest frequency peer: Busquets (-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 « bâillement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brûles
brûles
36,420 corpus weight
- bumper
bumper
36,419 corpus weight
- Burrell
Burrell
36,417 corpus weight
- Busquets
Busquets
36,416 corpus weight
- bâillement
bâillement
36,415 corpus weight
- bédouin
bédouin
36,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bâillement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bâillement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑj.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bâillement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bâillement is uncommon French at frequency #63,586 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑj.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bâillement in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bâillement, spelled B-Â-I-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de bâiller, par fatigue ou pour exprimer son ennui ou un état de bien-être caractérisé par le repos.
- 2Ouverture, vide.
- 3Hiatus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bâillement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire un bâillement prolongé.
Être pris de bâillements.
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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