bardeau
\baʁ.do\
The verdict
“bardeau” is uncommon French (frequency #94,511 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,511
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite planche mince et courte, employée dans les constructions, surtout pour couvrir les maisons ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bardeau · bardeau · French
bardeau · rank #94,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,511
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbaries
Nearest frequency peer: barbaries (-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 « bardeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baragouine
baragouine
5,493 corpus weight
- Barbados
Barbados
5,492 corpus weight
- barbaries
barbaries
5,491 corpus weight
- bardeau
bardeau
5,490 corpus weight
- baseline
baseline
5,488 corpus weight
- basmati
basmati
5,487 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bardeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bardeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bardeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bardeau is uncommon French at frequency #94,511 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bardeau in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bardeau, spelled B-A-R-D-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Petite planche mince et courte, employée dans les constructions, surtout pour couvrir les maisons ^([1]).
- 2Élément de boue, limon, bauche (mortier de terre grasse mêlée de paille), dalle à paver ou de chaume.
- 3Boîte spéciale dans laquelle les caractères sont mis en réserve ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bardeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les hurlements du vent au-dehors nous étourdissent, et nous entendons aussi les craquements sinistres de la charpente, les détonations des bardeaux arrachés.
Je monte sur le toit avec un enfant et un chien, je tire sur les bardeaux chauffés par le ciel en déchirant mes paumes sur l’odeur asphaltée.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).