banne

/\ban\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#88,362

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

banne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voiture en tombereau, à fond mobile. Pronounced \ban\.

Key facts for banne
PropertyValue
Headwordbanne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ban\
Letters5
Frequency rank#88,362
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of banne in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for banne is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ban\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,362 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for banne in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is banne, spelled B-A-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voiture en tombereau, à fond mobile.
  2. 2
    Petit chariot servant à transporter du charbon.
  3. 3
    Grande manne faite communément de branches d’osier
  4. 4
    Berceau d'enfant.
  5. 5
    Terme de charbonnier, Grande manne faite de branchages entrelacés dans laquelle on transporte le charbon (définition de M. Dupin dans le code du commerce du bois et du charbon édité à Paris chez Guillaume en 1817)
  6. 6
    Grosse toile servant à couvrir les marchandises qui sont dans les bateaux, sur les charrettes de rouliers, etc.
  7. 7
    Grosse toile tendue sur un bateau pour se protéger du soleil ou de la pluie.
  8. 8
    Store de grosse toile tendue au-devant d’une boutique pour protéger les vitrines et la marchandise exposée du soleil et de la pluie.
  9. 9
    Plus généralement un store de toile.
  10. 10
    Montagne à sommet abrupt.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #88,362 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "banne"?
"banne" is spelled B-A-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ban\.
What does "banne" mean?
As a noun, "banne" means: Voiture en tombereau, à fond mobile.
How do you pronounce "banne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "banne" is \ban\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "banne" come from?
"banne" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.