bandant
\bɑ̃.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“bandant” is uncommon French (frequency #59,096 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,096
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait bander, entrer en érection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandant · bandant · French
bandant · rank #59,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,096
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Balmain
Nearest frequency peer: Balmain (-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 « bandant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Babacar
Babacar
40,909 corpus weight
- Balmain
Balmain
40,906 corpus weight
- bandant
bandant
40,905 corpus weight
- Banff
Banff
40,904 corpus weight
- banquière
banquière
40,903 corpus weight
- barba
barba
40,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bandant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bandant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bandant is uncommon French at frequency #59,096 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɑ̃.dɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bandant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bandant, spelled B-A-N-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui fait bander, entrer en érection.
- 2Qui suscite un désir, un intérêt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les infirmières bandantes, c'est uniquement dans les films.
De nous deux c’est lui qui avait le plus les jetons, mais il avait encore plus envie que peur, et me serrait derrière, m’attrapant de temps en temps et me pressant contre lui pour me faire voir où il en était rendu. — C’est que t’es vachement bandante, disait-il. Tu me rends fou, tu sais.
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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