bapaume
\ba.pom\
The verdict
“bapaume” is uncommon French (frequency #73,746 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,746
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d'un navire en calme plat ou dégréé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bapaume · bapaume · French
bapaume · rank #73,746 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,746
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bantou
Nearest frequency peer: bantou (-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 « bapaume »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bamiléké
Bamiléké
26,258 corpus weight
- banania
banania
26,257 corpus weight
- bantou
bantou
26,256 corpus weight
- bapaume
bapaume
26,255 corpus weight
- barbot
barbot
26,254 corpus weight
- barbouillé
barbouillé
26,253 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bapaume » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bapaume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.pom\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,746 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bapaume » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bapaume is uncommon French at frequency #73,746 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.pom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État d'un navire en calme plat ou dégréé.".
bapaume doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bapaume, spelled B-A-P-A-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1État d'un navire en calme plat ou dégréé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bapaume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Navire en bapaume.
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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