BAPE
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
- balla
balla
48,706 corpus weight
- banalise
banalise
48,705 corpus weight
- BAPE
BAPE
48,704 corpus weight
- barbarin
barbarin
48,703 corpus weight
- barrique
barrique
48,702 corpus weight
- bastos
bastos
48,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BAPE » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BAPE |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « BAPE » en français
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
- 1Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BAPE appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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