bardon
\ˈbar.dɔ̃n\
The verdict
“bardon” is uncommon French (frequency #79,081 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,081
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de pardon par adoucissement (p → b).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bardon · bardon · French
bardon · rank #79,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,081
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baraquement
Nearest frequency peer: baraquement (-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 « bardon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baisées
baisées
20,923 corpus weight
- ballasts
ballasts
20,922 corpus weight
- baraquement
baraquement
20,921 corpus weight
- bardon
bardon
20,920 corpus weight
- basaltique
basaltique
20,919 corpus weight
- basiquement
basiquement
20,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bardon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bardon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbar.dɔ̃n\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bardon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bardon is uncommon French at frequency #79,081 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbar.dɔ̃n\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de pardon par adoucissement (p → b).".
bardon has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bardon, spelled B-A-R-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de pardon par adoucissement (p → b).
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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