bandicoot
\bɑ̃.di.kut\
The verdict
“bandicoot” is uncommon French (frequency #86,450 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,450
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire des membres d’une famille des Paramélidées, petits marsupiaux d’Australie et de Nouvelle-Guinée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandicoot · bandicoot · French
bandicoot · rank #86,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,450
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baltringues
Nearest frequency peer: baltringues (-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 « bandicoot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bakchich
bakchich
13,554 corpus weight
- balisée
balisée
13,553 corpus weight
- baltringues
baltringues
13,552 corpus weight
- bandicoot
bandicoot
13,551 corpus weight
- baobabs
baobabs
13,550 corpus weight
- baran
baran
13,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bandicoot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandicoot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.di.kut\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bandicoot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bandicoot is uncommon French at frequency #86,450 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃.di.kut\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vernaculaire des membres d’une famille des Paramélidées, petits marsupiaux d’Australie et de Nouvelle-Guinée.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bandicoot in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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. The correct French form is bandicoot, spelled B-A-N-D-I-C-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire des membres d’une famille des Paramélidées, petits marsupiaux d’Australie et de Nouvelle-Guinée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandicoot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bandicoot est une espèce de marsupiaux, qui en remontrerait au renard d’Europe et lui donnerait des leçons de pillage dans les basses-cours.
Endémique d’Australie, le bandicoot lapin surnommé également bilby, est un petit mammifère de couleur gris-bleu dont les oreilles font penser à celles d’un lapin, tandis que son museau nous rappelle celui d’une souris.
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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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