baroud
\ba.ʁud\
The verdict
“baroud” is uncommon French (frequency #59,816 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,816
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parade rituelle lors de certaines cérémonies au Maroc et en Algérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baroud · baroud · French
baroud · rank #59,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,816
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbelé
Nearest frequency peer: barbelé (-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 « baroud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- badin
badin
40,189 corpus weight
- barbelé
barbelé
40,186 corpus weight
- baroud
baroud
40,185 corpus weight
- barrées
barrées
40,184 corpus weight
- Bassano
Bassano
40,182 corpus weight
- bate
bate
40,181 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baroud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baroud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁud\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baroud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baroud is uncommon French at frequency #59,816 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʁud\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
baroud has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 baroud, spelled B-A-R-O-U-D.
Definition
- 1Parade rituelle lors de certaines cérémonies au Maroc et en Algérie.
- 2(Argot) Combat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baroud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les seules troupes blanches qui, au Maroc, vont au baroud (à la bataille), sont les joyeux et la légion étrangère.
Voyons, mon petit pote, fais pas l'idiot. Je te dis qu'on nous a prévenus : il va y avoir du baroud un de ces jours.
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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