Banon
The verdict
“Banon” is uncommon French (frequency #83,625 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,625
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banon · Banon · French
Banon · rank #83,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,625
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Banjul
Nearest frequency peer: Banjul (-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 « Banon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balayez
balayez
16,379 corpus weight
- balkanisati…
balkanisation
16,378 corpus weight
- Banjul
Banjul
16,377 corpus weight
- Banon
Banon
16,376 corpus weight
- barrera
barrera
16,374 corpus weight
- Barthel
Barthel
16,373 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Banon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Banon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Banon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Banon is uncommon French at frequency #83,625 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.".
Banon has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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. The correct French form is Banon, spelled B-A-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Banon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nuit touche Banon, monte le long de la montagne (je la vois d’ici), atteint le rebord du plateau, coule le long de la route départementale, s’entasse dans les fonds, submerge les fermes, se glisse de boqueteau en boqueteau, saute les murs d’enceinte de Silence, remplit la cour, les étables où les chevaux tapent du pied, la cuisine où, seul, le feu de l…
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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