BAPE

noun

The verdict

“BAPE” is uncommon French (frequency #51,297 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,297
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bape · BAPE · French

BAPE · rank #51,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,297
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH banalise

Nearest frequency peer: banalise (-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 « BAPE »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BAPE » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for BAPE
PropertyValue
HeadwordBAPE
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#51,297
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « BAPE » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).BAPEtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « banalise » (#51,296), « barbarin » (#51,298), « balla » (#51,295). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « BAPE » est au #51,297. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

BAPE is uncommon French at frequency #51,297 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for BAPE in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 BAPE, spelled B-A-P-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how BAPE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Eh bien, c’est exactement ce qu’on a fait avec la cimenterie McInnis. On lui a permis de passer Go sans avoir à se présenter devant le BAPE.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "BAPE"?
"BAPE" is spelled B-A-P-E.
What does "BAPE" mean?
As a noun, "BAPE" means: Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement.
What language does "BAPE" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "BAPE", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list