bantou
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#73,745
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bantou is anFrenchadj. It means: Relatif au groupe ethnique des Bantous, ensemble de peuples parlant quelque quatre cents langues apparentées dites bantoues, présents en Afrique, du Gabon aux Comores d’ouest en est et de la Républ... Pronounced \bɑ̃.tu\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bantou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.tu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bantou is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ̃.tu\. Corpus data places it at rank #73,745 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bantou in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 bantou, spelled B-A-N-T-O-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relatif au groupe ethnique des Bantous, ensemble de peuples parlant quelque quatre cents langues apparentées dites bantoues, présents en Afrique, du Gabon aux Comores d’ouest en est et de la République Centrafricaine à l’Afrique du Sud du nord au sud.
- 2Relatif à une langue des Bantous.
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Frequency rank: #73,745 in French
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