bastonnade
\bas.tɔ.nad\
The verdict
“bastonnade” is uncommon French (frequency #97,692 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,692
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volée de coups de bâton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bastonnade · bastonnade · French
bastonnade · rank #97,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,692
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bassi
Nearest frequency peer: Bassi (-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 « bastonnade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bassi
Bassi
2,310 corpus weight
- bastonnade
bastonnade
2,309 corpus weight
- bax
bax
2,308 corpus weight
- bazoches
bazoches
2,307 corpus weight
- bbl
bbl
2,306 corpus weight
- Beaupréau
Beaupréau
2,305 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bastonnade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bastonnade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bas.tɔ.nad\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bastonnade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bastonnade is uncommon French at frequency #97,692 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bas.tɔ.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Volée de coups de bâton.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bastonnade in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bastonnade, spelled B-A-S-T-O-N-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Volée de coups de bâton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bastonnade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 7 septembre 1700, le major lui fit donner une bastonnade de soixante-seize coups de la corde goudronnée et trempée à la mer. Le lendemain, il lui fit donner une seconde bastonnade de quarante-un coups, lui disant : « À demain, à demain ; songe à ce que tu auras à faire. »
Dans les premiers âges historiques, on ne voit pas seulement les maîtres frapper et fouetter leurs esclaves ; les rois eux-mêmes administrent le supplice de la bastonnade.
Synonyms
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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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