bana
\ba.na\
The verdict
“bana” is uncommon French (frequency #55,764 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,764
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue à tons de la famille hmong-mien, parlée par des Miao, dans la province du Hunan en Chine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bana · bana · French
bana · rank #55,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,764
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baillet
Nearest frequency peer: baillet (-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 « bana »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aérodynamiq…
aérodynamiques
44,241 corpus weight
- babioles
babioles
44,240 corpus weight
- baillet
baillet
44,238 corpus weight
- bana
bana
44,237 corpus weight
- bangladais
bangladais
44,236 corpus weight
- battais
battais
44,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.na\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bana » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bana is uncommon French at frequency #55,764 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bana doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bana, spelled B-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Langue à tons de la famille hmong-mien, parlée par des Miao, dans la province du Hunan en Chine.
- 2Langue tchadique parlée dans l’extrême-Nord du Cameroun, dans le département du Mayo-Tsanaga, au nord et au nord-est de Bourrha, près de la frontière avec le Nigeria. Elle comporte deux dialectes principaux, le guili (ou gili) et le gamboura.
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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