bais
\bɛ\
The verdict
“bais” is uncommon French (frequency #58,438 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,438
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bais · bais · French
bais · rank #58,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,438
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bahrain
Nearest frequency peer: Bahrain (-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 « bais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bactérien
bactérien
41,566 corpus weight
- Bahrain
Bahrain
41,564 corpus weight
- bais
bais
41,563 corpus weight
- baissière
baissière
41,562 corpus weight
- baleiniers
baleiniers
41,561 corpus weight
- bandante
bandante
41,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bais is uncommon French at frequency #58,438 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bai.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bais in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bais, spelled B-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bai.
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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