baldaquin
\bal.da.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“baldaquin” is uncommon French (frequency #50,661 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,661
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dais qui sert de couronnement à un trône, à un autel, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baldaquin · baldaquin · French
baldaquin · rank #50,661 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,661
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balboa
Nearest frequency peer: balboa (-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 « baldaquin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- axis
axis
49,343 corpus weight
- bagels
bagels
49,342 corpus weight
- balboa
balboa
49,341 corpus weight
- baldaquin
baldaquin
49,340 corpus weight
- balkanique
balkanique
49,338 corpus weight
- baraquements
baraquements
49,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baldaquin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baldaquin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bal.da.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baldaquin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baldaquin is uncommon French at frequency #50,661 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bal.da.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for baldaquin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 baldaquin, spelled B-A-L-D-A-Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Dais qui sert de couronnement à un trône, à un autel, etc.
- 2Ciel de lit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baldaquin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De là l’importance décorative donnée dans les églises baroques à la chaire, aux confessionnaux et à l’autel que surmonte un baldaquin. L’Église n’est plus comme au Moyen Age une sublimation de la Cité : elle est devenue un engin spécialisé du salut, une happeuse d’âmes.
« Est-ce que j’arrive à me passer de tant de garnitures superflues, pour mener une vie plus simple ? Demandons-nous : à Noël, est-ce que je partage mon pain avec celui qui n’en a pas ? », a lancé François, s’exprimant sous le baldaquin dessiné par le Bernin, où seul le souverain pontife est autorisé à célébrer la messe. Le Monde avec AFP, « L’homme est de…
Synonyms
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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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