bananière
\ba.na.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“bananière” is uncommon French (frequency #62,072 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,072
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de bananier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bananiere · bananière · French
bananière · rank #62,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,072
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH ballots
Nearest frequency peer: ballots (-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 « bananière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baissées
baissées
37,931 corpus weight
- ballots
ballots
37,930 corpus weight
- bananière
bananière
37,929 corpus weight
- bani
bani
37,927 corpus weight
- banlieusard
banlieusard
37,926 corpus weight
- Bapt
Bapt
37,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bananière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bananière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.na.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bananière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bananière is uncommon French at frequency #62,072 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.na.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de bananier.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bananière, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bananière, spelled B-A-N-A-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de bananier.
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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