bands
\bɛnd\
The verdict
“bands” is uncommon French (frequency #50,079 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,079
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de band.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bands · bands · French
bands · rank #50,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,079
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bandelettes
Nearest frequency peer: bandelettes (-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 « bands »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bagnols
Bagnols
49,925 corpus weight
- ballottage
ballottage
49,924 corpus weight
- bandelettes
bandelettes
49,923 corpus weight
- bands
bands
49,922 corpus weight
- baobab
baobab
49,921 corpus weight
- barracuda
barracuda
49,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bands » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bands |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛnd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bands » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bands is uncommon French at frequency #50,079 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛnd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de band.".
bands doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bands, spelled B-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de band.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bands appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rumeur évoque même un concert réunissant les deux bands…
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bands", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).