bandera
\bɑ̃.de.ʁa\
The verdict
“bandera” is uncommon French (frequency #85,496 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,496
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Compagnie d’infanterie dans l’armée espagnole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandera · bandera · French
bandera · rank #85,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banat
Nearest frequency peer: banat (-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 « bandera »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Barbarossa
Barbarossa
14,502 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bandera » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandera |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.de.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bandera » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bandera is uncommon French at frequency #85,496 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃.de.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bandera in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bandera, spelled B-A-N-D-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Compagnie d’infanterie dans l’armée espagnole.
- 2Compagnie de la Légion étrangère espagnole.
- 3Passe particulière de muleta que le toréro exécute lorsque le taureau charge mal ou pas du tout.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais lorsque les hommes de la 3ᵉ Bandera tomberont sous les balles ennemies, l’indicateur a mérité la poignée de main que Pierre lui donne avant de mourir.
Lorsque le torero effectue un demi-tour dans la direction inverse de celle empruntée par le taureau, on obtient la bandera (le drapeau) de la Sema. La Manoletina est une bandera plus complexe.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).