bann
\ban\
The verdict
“bann” is uncommon French (frequency #93,519 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,519
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bannen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bann · bann · French
bann · rank #93,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,519
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH ballroom
Nearest frequency peer: ballroom (-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 « bann »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- backgammon
backgammon
6,487 corpus weight
- balaya
balaya
6,485 corpus weight
- balayeurs
balayeurs
6,484 corpus weight
- ballroom
ballroom
6,483 corpus weight
- bann
bann
6,482 corpus weight
- Bautzen
Bautzen
6,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bann » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bann |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ban\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bann » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bann is uncommon French at frequency #93,519 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ban\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bann, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 bann, spelled B-A-N-N.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de bannen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de bannen.
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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