baobab
\ba.ɔ.bab\
The verdict
“baobab” is uncommon French (frequency #50,080 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,080
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre de grande taille de la famille des Malvacées poussant dans les pays tropicaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baobab · baobab · French
baobab · rank #50,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,080
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bands
Nearest frequency peer: bands (-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 « baobab »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ballottage
ballottage
49,924 corpus weight
- bandelettes
bandelettes
49,923 corpus weight
- bands
bands
49,922 corpus weight
- baobab
baobab
49,921 corpus weight
- barracuda
barracuda
49,920 corpus weight
- barras
barras
49,919 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baobab » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baobab |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɔ.bab\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baobab » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baobab is uncommon French at frequency #50,080 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ɔ.bab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
baobab doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 baobab, spelled B-A-O-B-A-B.
Definition
- 1Arbre de grande taille de la famille des Malvacées poussant dans les pays tropicaux.
- 2Genre d’arbres tropicaux à feuillage caduc de la famille des Malvacées dont le nom scientifique est Andonsonia L..
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baobab appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fruit du baobab, qui est comestible, se nomme le pain de singe.
Les baobabs, avant de grandir, ça commence par être petit.
This word in other languages
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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