banne
\ban\
The verdict
“banne” is an uncommon French word, ranked #88,362 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #88,362
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Voiture en tombereau, à fond mobile.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ban\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “banne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for banne is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for banne, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is banne, spelled B-A-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Voiture en tombereau, à fond mobile.
- 2Petit chariot servant à transporter du charbon.
- 3Grande manne faite communément de branches d’osier
- 4Berceau d'enfant.
- 5Terme 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)
- 6Grosse toile servant à couvrir les marchandises qui sont dans les bateaux, sur les charrettes de rouliers, etc.
- 7Grosse toile tendue sur un bateau pour se protéger du soleil ou de la pluie.
- 8Store de grosse toile tendue au-devant d’une boutique pour protéger les vitrines et la marchandise exposée du soleil et de la pluie.
- 9Plus généralement un store de toile.
- 10Montagne à sommet abrupt.
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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Using “banne”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ban\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.