Baur
\ˈbɑʊɐ\
The verdict
“Baur” is uncommon French (frequency #73,755 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,755
- 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-baur · Baur · French
Baur · rank #73,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,755
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baudot
Nearest frequency peer: Baudot (-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 « Baur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- beira
beira
26,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Baur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Baur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɑʊɐ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Baur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Baur is uncommon French at frequency #73,755 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈbɑʊɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Baur in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Baur, spelled B-A-U-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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