bait
\beɪt\
The verdict
“bait” is uncommon French (frequency #64,255 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,255
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appât.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bait · bait · French
bait · rank #64,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,255
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bafouille
Nearest frequency peer: bafouille (-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 « bait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aérobic
aérobic
35,749 corpus weight
- baas
baas
35,748 corpus weight
- bafouille
bafouille
35,747 corpus weight
- bait
bait
35,746 corpus weight
- Baka
Baka
35,745 corpus weight
- Balkan
Balkan
35,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \beɪt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bait is uncommon French at frequency #64,255 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \beɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bait has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 bait, spelled B-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Appât.
- 2Repas emmené au travail.
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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