baumes
\bom\
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
- bardeaux
bardeaux
35,742 corpus weight
- barrio
barrio
35,741 corpus weight
- battrais
battrais
35,738 corpus weight
- baumes
baumes
35,737 corpus weight
- Bausch
Bausch
35,736 corpus weight
- BBM
BBM
35,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baumes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baumes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bom\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baumes » en français
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
- 1Pluriel de baume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baumes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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