bander comme un âne
\bɑ̃.de kɔ.m‿œ̃.n‿ɑːn\
The verdict
“bander comme un âne” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Avoir une très forte érection.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bander comme un âne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.de kɔ.m‿œ̃.n‿ɑːn\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bander comme un âne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bander comme un âne is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ̃.de kɔ.m‿œ̃.n‿ɑːn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Avoir une très forte érection.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bander comme un âne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 bander comme un âne, spelled B-A-N-D-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -Â-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avoir une très forte érection.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-N-D-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -Â-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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