bardes
\baʁd\
The verdict
“bardes” is uncommon French (frequency #64,952 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,952
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe barder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bardes · bardes · French
bardes · rank #64,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,952
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbituriques
Nearest frequency peer: barbituriques (-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 « bardes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baissier
baissier
35,053 corpus weight
- balte
balte
35,051 corpus weight
- barbituriqu…
barbituriques
35,050 corpus weight
- bardes
bardes
35,049 corpus weight
- basal
basal
35,047 corpus weight
- batch
batch
35,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bardes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bardes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \baʁd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bardes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bardes is uncommon French at frequency #64,952 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \baʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bardes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bardes, spelled B-A-R-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe barder.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe barder.
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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