bandy
\ˈbæn.di\
The verdict
“bandy” is uncommon French (frequency #81,797 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,797
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (personne ou animal) Qui a les jambes arquées, un genu varum.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandy · bandy · French
bandy · rank #81,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,797
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balmoral
Nearest frequency peer: balmoral (-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 « bandy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balançaient
balançaient
18,207 corpus weight
- ballotage
ballotage
18,206 corpus weight
- balmoral
balmoral
18,205 corpus weight
- bandy
bandy
18,204 corpus weight
- baroudeurs
baroudeurs
18,202 corpus weight
- Barrington
Barrington
18,201 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bandy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbæn.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bandy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bandy is uncommon French at frequency #81,797 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈbæn.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(personne ou animal) Qui a les jambes arquées, un genu varum.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bandy in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bandy, spelled B-A-N-D-Y.
Definition
- 1(personne ou animal) Qui a les jambes arquées, un genu varum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bandy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He has bandy legs. - Il a les jambes arquées.
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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