baptistère
\ba.tis.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“baptistère” is uncommon French (frequency #56,439 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,439
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit édifice bâti auprès des cathédrales, pour y administrer le baptême, et qui renfermait un ou plusieurs autels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baptistere · baptistère · French
baptistère · rank #56,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,439
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bantam
Nearest frequency peer: bantam (-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 « baptistère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bafoue
bafoue
43,566 corpus weight
- Balagne
Balagne
43,565 corpus weight
- balancement
balancement
43,564 corpus weight
- bantam
bantam
43,563 corpus weight
- baptistère
baptistère
43,562 corpus weight
- bcbg
bcbg
43,559 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baptistère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baptistère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.tis.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baptistère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baptistère is uncommon French at frequency #56,439 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.tis.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for baptistère in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is baptistère, spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-T-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Petit édifice bâti auprès des cathédrales, pour y administrer le baptême, et qui renfermait un ou plusieurs autels.
- 2Chapelle où sont les fonts baptismaux dans une église.
- 3Extrait de baptême.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baptistère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le baptistère de Constantin est auprès de Saint-Jean de Latran.
Ces églises ont donc un sens harmonique où, comprise entre le baptistère et le cimetière, s’accomplit la vie de ces hommes.
This word in other languages
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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