baud
\bo\
The verdict
“baud” is uncommon French (frequency #50,084 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,084
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chien courant pour chasser le cerf ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-baud · baud · French
baud · rank #50,084 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,084
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barthe
Nearest frequency peer: Barthe (-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 « baud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barracuda
barracuda
49,920 corpus weight
- barras
barras
49,919 corpus weight
- Barthe
Barthe
49,918 corpus weight
- baud
baud
49,917 corpus weight
- Belgian
Belgian
49,916 corpus weight
- bergères
bergères
49,914 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baud is uncommon French at frequency #50,084 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chien courant pour chasser le cerf ^([1]).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for baud, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is baud, spelled B-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Chien courant pour chasser le cerf ^([1]).
Synonyms
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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