baude
\bod\
The verdict
“baude” is uncommon French (frequency #84,558 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,558
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lest attaché aux madragues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baude · baude · French
baude · rank #84,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,558
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basales
Nearest frequency peer: basales (-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 « baude »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barcelonaise
barcelonaise
15,447 corpus weight
- baronnet
baronnet
15,446 corpus weight
- basales
basales
15,444 corpus weight
- baude
baude
15,443 corpus weight
- Bellefontai…
Bellefontaine
15,441 corpus weight
- belliciste
belliciste
15,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baude » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bod\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baude » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baude is uncommon French at frequency #84,558 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bod\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lest attaché aux madragues.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for baude in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is baude, spelled B-A-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Lest attaché aux madragues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ordonnance de 1681 et l’arrêté de l’an IX ne laissent pas aux particuliers la faculté d’établir, quand, comme et où bon leur semble, des madragues. […] L’ordonnance défendait de placer aucunes madragues dans les ports ou autres lieux où elles pussent nuire à la navigation et d’y laisser, en levant les madragues, les pierres ou baudes qui y sont attachées.
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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