baobabs
\ba.ɔ.bab\
The verdict
“baobabs” is uncommon French (frequency #86,451 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,451
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de baobab.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baobabs · baobabs · French
baobabs · rank #86,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,451
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bandicoot
Nearest frequency peer: bandicoot (-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 « baobabs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balisée
balisée
13,553 corpus weight
- baltringues
baltringues
13,552 corpus weight
- bandicoot
bandicoot
13,551 corpus weight
- baobabs
baobabs
13,550 corpus weight
- baran
baran
13,549 corpus weight
- Bassorah
Bassorah
13,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baobabs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baobabs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɔ.bab\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baobabs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baobabs is uncommon French at frequency #86,451 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ɔ.bab\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de baobab.".
Zero misspellings are on record for baobabs in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is baobabs, spelled B-A-O-B-A-B-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de baobab.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baobabs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le matin venu, il prenait sa cognée et s’en allait aux baobabs il arrachait l’écorce d'un baobab, puis il préparait sa corde et il allait acheter son dîner, et il mangeait.
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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