bambino

\bɑ̃.bi.no\

/\bɑ̃.bi.no\/ noun

The verdict

“bambino” is uncommon French (frequency #62,805 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,805
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bébé, petit enfant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bambino · bambino · French

bambino · rank #62,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,805
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH baliser

Nearest frequency peer: baliser (-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 « bambino »

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 « bambino » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bambino
PropertyValue
Headwordbambino
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɑ̃.bi.no\
Letters7
Frequency rank#62,805
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bambino » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bambinotombe 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: « baliser » (#62,804), « bamboula » (#62,806), « balançoires » (#62,803). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bambino » est au #62,805. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bambino is uncommon French at frequency #62,805 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃.bi.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bébé, petit enfant.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bambino, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 bambino, spelled B-A-M-B-I-N-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bébé, petit enfant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le petit Jésus est un bambino un peu gras, à grosses joues ; cette sincérité de l’art qui ignore la règle, le convenu et prend la vérité sur le vif, fait un plaisir extrême.
  2. C’était un bambino à longue natte, fort jaune de peau et curieusement vêtu d’une robe brodée de soleils.

Synonyms

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 "bambino"?
"bambino" is spelled B-A-M-B-I-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is \bɑ̃.bi.no\.
What does "bambino" mean?
As a noun, "bambino" means: Bébé, petit enfant.
How do you pronounce "bambino"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bambino" is \bɑ̃.bi.no\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bambino" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list