bavardent
\ba.vaʁd\
The verdict
“bavardent” is uncommon French (frequency #95,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,589
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bavarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bavardent · bavardent · French
bavardent · rank #95,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,589
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bassens
Nearest frequency peer: Bassens (-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 « bavardent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- balou
balou
4,420 corpus weight
- banier
banier
4,419 corpus weight
- Bassens
Bassens
4,413 corpus weight
- bavardent
bavardent
4,412 corpus weight
- beatmaker
beatmaker
4,409 corpus weight
- Belaïd
Belaïd
4,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bavardent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bavardent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.vaʁd\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bavardent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bavardent is uncommon French at frequency #95,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.vaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bavardent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bavardent, spelled B-A-V-A-R-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe bavarder.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe bavarder.
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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