bambino
\bɑ̃.bi.no\
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
- Bakayoko
Bakayoko
37,199 corpus weight
- balançoires
balançoires
37,198 corpus weight
- baliser
baliser
37,197 corpus weight
- bambino
bambino
37,196 corpus weight
- bamboula
bamboula
37,195 corpus weight
- bannies
bannies
37,194 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bambino » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bambino |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.bi.no\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bambino » en français
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
- 1Bébé, petit enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bambino appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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