bâiller
\ba.je\
The verdict
“bâiller” is uncommon French (frequency #90,499 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,499
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réaliser un mouvement réflexe d’inspiration suivi d’une expiration en ouvrant grand la bouche, par fatigue ou par ennui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bailler · bâiller · French
bâiller · rank #90,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,499
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burkinabés
Nearest frequency peer: burkinabés (-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 « bâiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brûlèrent
brûlèrent
9,505 corpus weight
- buenas
buenas
9,504 corpus weight
- burkinabés
burkinabés
9,503 corpus weight
- bâiller
bâiller
9,502 corpus weight
- cabanons
cabanons
9,501 corpus weight
- cabasse
cabasse
9,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bâiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bâiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bâiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bâiller is uncommon French at frequency #90,499 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bâiller in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bâiller, spelled B-Â-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réaliser un mouvement réflexe d’inspiration suivi d’une expiration en ouvrant grand la bouche, par fatigue ou par ennui.
- 2Béer, être ouvert, entrouvert.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bâiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’intelligence avec laquelle ce Tourangeau raccommodait le trait cassé rassura le colonel comte d’Aiglemont, qui revint vers la portière en étendant ses bras comme pour détirer ses muscles endormis ; il bâilla, regarda le paysage, et posa la main sur le bras d’une jeune femme soigneusement enveloppée dans un vitchoura.
Boyer apprit au parterre à bâiller.
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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