Baudot
The verdict
“Baudot” is uncommon French (frequency #73,754 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,754
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baudot · Baudot · French
Baudot · rank #73,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,754
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH battrons
Nearest frequency peer: battrons (-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 « Baudot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barone
barone
26,250 corpus weight
- bassem
bassem
26,249 corpus weight
- battrons
battrons
26,248 corpus weight
- Baudot
Baudot
26,247 corpus weight
- Baur
Baur
26,246 corpus weight
- becquerel
becquerel
26,245 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Baudot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baudot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Baudot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Baudot is uncommon French at frequency #73,754 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Baudot in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Baudot, spelled B-A-U-D-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Baudot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Baudot père et fils, marque de vin de Champagne de Mailly-Champagne.
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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