baoulé
\ba.u.le\
The verdict
“baoulé” is uncommon French (frequency #68,841 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,841
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au peuple des Baoulés, à leur culture, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baoule · baoulé · French
baoulé · rank #68,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,841
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Balmont
Nearest frequency peer: Balmont (-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 « baoulé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babylonien
babylonien
31,163 corpus weight
- balard
balard
31,162 corpus weight
- Balmont
Balmont
31,161 corpus weight
- baoulé
baoulé
31,160 corpus weight
- Barbuda
Barbuda
31,159 corpus weight
- barmaid
barmaid
31,158 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baoulé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baoulé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.u.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baoulé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baoulé is uncommon French at frequency #68,841 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.u.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for baoulé, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is baoulé, spelled B-A-O-U-L-É.
Definition
- 1Relatif au peuple des Baoulés, à leur culture, etc.
- 2Relatif au baoulé, la langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baoulé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les principales tribus que les Français rencontrèrent dans leur investissement des pays baoulés […] La plupart des coutumes baoulées étaient semblables à celles des Agnis.
Quoi ! Celui qui, d’un pas léger, courait les sentiers de Vouvray, est-ce le même que nous voyons assis dans la poussière d’un village baoulé au seuil d’une pauvre case de palmes et de bambous et qui tire l’âcre fumée d’une courte pipe en terre tandis que sa femme pile le mil dans un mortier en bois d’émien ?
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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