banane
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,433
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
banane is aFrenchnoun. It means: Fruit comestible du bananier, baie de forme allongée, d’abord vert puis jaune ponctué de taches noires à maturité, à chair farineuse. Pronounced \ba.nan\. It ranks #9,433 in French word frequency. Often confused with bane and bonne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.nan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for banane is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.nan\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,433 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for banane, with forms such as "abnane", "baanne", and "banaen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bane", "bonne", "bande", 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 banane, spelled B-A-N-A-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruit comestible du bananier, baie de forme allongée, d’abord vert puis jaune ponctué de taches noires à maturité, à chair farineuse.
- 2Sacoche fixée à une ceinture et portée sur le ventre.
- 3Coiffure donnant au toupet une forme bombée et arrondie sur le front, rappelant une banane.
- 4Nigaud, personne ayant une pensée naïve ou idiote.
- 5Mauvaise note.
- 6Oreille.
- 7Sourire.
- 8Sexe de l’homme ; pénis.
- 9Décoration.
- 10Surnom donné, à cause de leur forme, aux hélicoptères Piasecki S-21 à double rotor pendant la guerre d’Algérie.
- 11Galon de l’uniforme d’un gardien.
- 12Personne asiatique ayant vécu longtemps en Occident.
- 13Type de piercing qui ressemble à une barre légèrement pliée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abnane,baanne,banaen,bananne,bannae,bannane,bbanane,bnaane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for banane
Misspelling Variants of "banane"
Frequency rank: #9,433 in French
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