baudet
\bo.dɛ\
The verdict
“baudet” is uncommon French (frequency #59,104 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,104
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom commun de l’âne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baudet · baudet · French
baudet · rank #59,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,104
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baumann
Nearest frequency peer: Baumann (+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 « baudet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barral
barral
40,901 corpus weight
- basson
basson
40,900 corpus weight
- batraciens
batraciens
40,899 corpus weight
- baudet
baudet
40,897 corpus weight
- Baumann
Baumann
40,896 corpus weight
- bazaar
bazaar
40,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baudet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baudet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baudet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baudet is uncommon French at frequency #59,104 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
baudet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is baudet, spelled B-A-U-D-E-T.
Definition
- 1Nom commun de l’âne.
- 2Âne reproducteur, étalon.
- 3Âne, homme stupide ou ignorant.
- 4Chevalet servant au sciage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baudet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nécessité des guenilles, des cadenettes et de la moustache aux talons n'est certainement pas démontrée d'une manière très-rigoureuse; mais l'éleveur de mules repousserait le baudet qui ne les porterait pas.
Être chargé comme un baudet, être excessivement chargé.
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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