banat
\ba.na\
The verdict
“banat” is uncommon French (frequency #85,495 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,495
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province gouvernée par un ban, région du sud-est de l’Europe, comme par exemple en Roumanie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banat · banat · French
banat · rank #85,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,495
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bama
Nearest frequency peer: Bama (-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 « banat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aïoli
aïoli
14,509 corpus weight
- baladeuses
baladeuses
14,508 corpus weight
- Bama
Bama
14,507 corpus weight
- banat
banat
14,506 corpus weight
- bandera
bandera
14,505 corpus weight
- banker
banker
14,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « banat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « banat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
banat is uncommon French at frequency #85,495 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for banat, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is banat, spelled B-A-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Province gouvernée par un ban, région du sud-est de l’Europe, comme par exemple en Roumanie.
- 2Dignité de ban.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how banat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au traité de Passarowitz en 1718, le roi empereur Charles III obtint donc enfin le banat de Temesvár et toute la Serbie du Nord, avec Belgrade, comme à la fin du XVᵉ siècle.
This word in other languages
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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