bailliages
\ba.jaʒ\
The verdict
“bailliages” is uncommon French (frequency #62,801 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,801
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bailliage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bailliages · bailliages · French
bailliages · rank #62,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,801
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aï
Nearest frequency peer: aï (-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 « bailliages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aymon
Aymon
37,203 corpus weight
- aï
aï
37,201 corpus weight
- bailliages
bailliages
37,200 corpus weight
- Bakayoko
Bakayoko
37,199 corpus weight
- balançoires
balançoires
37,198 corpus weight
- baliser
baliser
37,197 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bailliages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bailliages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bailliages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bailliages is uncommon French at frequency #62,801 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.jaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bailliage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bailliages, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bailliages, spelled B-A-I-L-L-I-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bailliage.
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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