bavant
\ba.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“bavant” is uncommon French (frequency #92,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,463
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui bave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bavant · bavant · French
bavant · rank #92,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,463
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bateleur
Nearest frequency peer: bateleur (-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 « bavant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- banalisés
banalisés
7,541 corpus weight
- baptisant
baptisant
7,540 corpus weight
- bateleur
bateleur
7,539 corpus weight
- bavant
bavant
7,538 corpus weight
- bearing
bearing
7,536 corpus weight
- Beitrag
Beitrag
7,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bavant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bavant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bavant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bavant is uncommon French at frequency #92,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui bave.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bavant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bavant, spelled B-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui bave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bavant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peau couverte de boutons, grosses lèvres un peu bavantes (...)
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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