baroudeur
\ba.ʁu.dœʁ\
The verdict
“baroudeur” is uncommon French (frequency #57,100 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,100
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat ou guerrier qui a beaucoup combattu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baroudeur · baroudeur · French
baroudeur · rank #57,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,100
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbouzes
Nearest frequency peer: barbouzes (-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 « baroudeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bandai
bandai
42,904 corpus weight
- barbet
barbet
42,903 corpus weight
- barbouzes
barbouzes
42,902 corpus weight
- baroudeur
baroudeur
42,901 corpus weight
- batz
batz
42,900 corpus weight
- bayonnais
bayonnais
42,898 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baroudeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baroudeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁu.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baroudeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baroudeur is uncommon French at frequency #57,100 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʁu.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
baroudeur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 baroudeur, spelled B-A-R-O-U-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Soldat ou guerrier qui a beaucoup combattu.
- 2Aventurier ; voyageur intrépide ; globe-trotteur.
- 3Coureur qui va chercher les échappées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baroudeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'avais un brigadier-chef qui avait fait l’Indochine, le parfait baroudeur, qui commençait à être violent.
[…], l'aspirant de réserve Seveau, le passionné de botanique, porte lui aussi le brevet de pilote de l'armée de l'air. Et pourtant, il va se révéler dans les mois à venir comme le plus redoutable « baroudeur » de toute la LVF !
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).