baku
\ba.ku\
The verdict
“baku” is uncommon French (frequency #89,423 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,423
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Créature chimérique semblable à un tapir, qui se nourrit des rêves et des cauchemars.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baku · baku · French
baku · rank #89,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,423
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bagot
Nearest frequency peer: bagot (-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 « baku »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babu
babu
10,581 corpus weight
- bacchanales
bacchanales
10,580 corpus weight
- bagot
bagot
10,579 corpus weight
- baku
baku
10,578 corpus weight
- balustres
balustres
10,577 corpus weight
- banalisées
banalisées
10,576 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baku » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baku |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ku\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baku » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baku is uncommon French at frequency #89,423 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ku\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Créature chimérique semblable à un tapir, qui se nourrit des rêves et des cauchemars.".
Zero misspellings are on record for baku in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is baku, spelled B-A-K-U.
Definition
- 1Créature chimérique semblable à un tapir, qui se nourrit des rêves et des cauchemars.
This word in other languages
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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