baldaquin

\bal.da.kɛ̃\

/\bal.da.kɛ̃\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baldaquin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for baldaquin
PropertyValue
Headwordbaldaquin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bal.da.kɛ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#50,661
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « baldaquin » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).baldaquintombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « balboa » (#50,660), « bagels » (#50,659), « balkanique » (#50,663). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baldaquin » est au #50,661. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Dais qui sert de couronnement à un trône, à un autel, etc.
  2. 2
    Ciel de lit.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how baldaquin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. « 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

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baldaquin"?
"baldaquin" is spelled B-A-L-D-A-Q-U-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \bal.da.kɛ̃\.
What does "baldaquin" mean?
As a noun, "baldaquin" means: Dais qui sert de couronnement à un trône, à un autel, etc.
How do you pronounce "baldaquin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baldaquin" is \bal.da.kɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baldaquin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list