ban
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,466
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ban is aFrenchnoun. It means: Proclamation pour ordonner ou défendre quelque chose. Pronounced \bɑ̃\. It ranks #6,466 in French word frequency. Often confused with by and be.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ban |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ban is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,466 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ban in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "BD", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ban, spelled B-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proclamation pour ordonner ou défendre quelque chose.
- 2Publication par voie d’affiches à la porte de la mairie, ou d’un lieu de culte, d’une promesse de mariage entre deux personnes.
- 3Convocation par le suzerain des nobles pour le servir à la guerre, soit eux-mêmes en personne, soit par un certain nombre de gens armés, proportionnellement au revenu et à la qualité de chaque fief.
- 4Le corps même de la noblesse qui pouvait être ainsi convoqué.
- 5Exil imposé à quelqu’un par proclamation.
- 6Territoire communal.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #6,466 in French
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