bandai
\bɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“bandai” is uncommon French (frequency #57,097 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,097
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe bander.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandai · bandai · French
bandai · rank #57,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,097
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baladait
Nearest frequency peer: baladait (-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 « bandai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babouins
babouins
42,906 corpus weight
- baladait
baladait
42,905 corpus weight
- bandai
bandai
42,904 corpus weight
- barbet
barbet
42,903 corpus weight
- barbouzes
barbouzes
42,902 corpus weight
- baroudeur
baroudeur
42,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bandai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bandai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bandai is uncommon French at frequency #57,097 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɑ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe bander.".
bandai has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bandai, spelled B-A-N-D-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe bander.
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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