Bakayoko
The verdict
“Bakayoko” is uncommon French (frequency #62,802 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,802
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bakayoko · Bakayoko · French
Bakayoko · rank #62,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,802
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bailliages
Nearest frequency peer: bailliages (-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 « Bakayoko »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- bambino
bambino
37,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bakayoko » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bakayoko |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bakayoko » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bakayoko is uncommon French at frequency #62,802 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bakayoko, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Bakayoko, spelled B-A-K-A-Y-O-K-O.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bakayoko appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gros de Ligue I ont eu du mal dimanche. À l’image de Monaco, rejoint par Lorient (262) à la 95ᵉ minute sur un but de Tiémoué Bakayoko…
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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