baumes

\bom\

/\bom\/ noun

The verdict

“baumes” is uncommon French (frequency #64,264 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,264
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de baume.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baumes · baumes · French

baumes · rank #64,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,264
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH battrais

Nearest frequency peer: battrais (-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 « baumes »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baumes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for baumes
PropertyValue
Headwordbaumes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bom\
Letters6
Frequency rank#64,264
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « baumes » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).baumestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « battrais » (#64,263), « Bausch » (#64,265), « BBM » (#64,266). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baumes » est au #64,264. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

baumes is uncommon French at frequency #64,264 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de baume.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for baumes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is baumes, spelled B-A-U-M-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de baume.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how baumes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les odeurs forestières, senteurs adorées par les âmes friandes de poésie à qui plaisent les mousses les plus innocentes, les cryptogames les plus vénéneux, les terres mouillées, les saules, les baumes, le serpolet, les eaux vertes d’une mare, l’étoile arrondie des nénuphars jaunes ; toutes ces vigoureuses fécondations se livrent à vos narines en vous livr…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baumes"?
"baumes" is spelled B-A-U-M-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bom\.
What does "baumes" mean?
As a noun, "baumes" means: Pluriel de baume.
How do you pronounce "baumes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baumes" is \bom\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baumes" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baumes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list