baïonnette
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,361
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
baïonnette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Arme pointue qui s’ajuste au bout du fusil et que l’on peut en retirer à volonté. Pronounced \ba.jɔ.nɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baïonnette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.jɔ.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baïonnette is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.jɔ.nɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,361 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for baïonnette, with forms such as "abïonnette", "baoïnnette", and "baïnonette". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is baïonnette, spelled B-A-Ï-O-N-N-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arme pointue qui s’ajuste au bout du fusil et que l’on peut en retirer à volonté.
- 2Soldat armé d’une telle arme.
- 3Système d’attache consistant à faire tourner d’un quart de tour ou moins une pièce dans une autre, similaire au premier système de fixation des armes, dites « baïonnettes à douille ».
- 4Manœuvre d’un aéronef en phase d’approche finale qui lui permet de changer de piste sur un aérodrome comportant deux pistes parallèles.
- 5Déviation brutale de la tige à la suite de la perte du bourgeon terminal, qu’une branche latérale compense.
- 6Déviation d’un tuyau faite de deux coudes identiques, permettant de décaler le tuyau selon une direction parallèle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abïonnette,baoïnnette,baïnonette,baïonentte,baïonette,baïonnete,baïonnetet,baïonntete,bbaïonnette,bïaonnette
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Misspelling Variants of "baïonnette"
Frequency rank: #31,361 in French
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Nearby French words
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