bardeaux
\baʁ.do\
The verdict
“bardeaux” is uncommon French (frequency #64,259 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,259
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bardeau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bardeaux · bardeaux · French
bardeaux · rank #64,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,259
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baquets
Nearest frequency peer: baquets (-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 « bardeaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bait
bait
35,746 corpus weight
- Baka
Baka
35,745 corpus weight
- Balkan
Balkan
35,744 corpus weight
- baquets
baquets
35,743 corpus weight
- bardeaux
bardeaux
35,742 corpus weight
- barrio
barrio
35,741 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bardeaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bardeaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʁ.do\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bardeaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bardeaux is uncommon French at frequency #64,259 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baʁ.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bardeau.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bardeaux in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bardeaux, spelled B-A-R-D-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bardeau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bardeaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’en admirai la situation pittoresque sur la grande route poudreuse, l’immense toiture de bardeaux grisâtres, les hangars couvrant de leurs vastes ailes les charrettes, les charrues et les récoltes ; et, derrière, la basse-cour, puis le petit jardin, le verger, les vignes à mi-côte, les prairies dans le lointain.
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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