bavent
\bav\
The verdict
“bavent” is uncommon French (frequency #67,315 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,315
- 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 baver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bavent · bavent · French
bavent · rank #67,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,315
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH becca
Nearest frequency peer: becca (+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 « bavent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bark
bark
32,689 corpus weight
- barrios
barrios
32,688 corpus weight
- bavent
bavent
32,686 corpus weight
- becca
becca
32,685 corpus weight
- Beltrame
Beltrame
32,684 corpus weight
- benigno
benigno
32,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bavent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bavent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bav\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bavent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bavent is uncommon French at frequency #67,315 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bavent, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bavent, spelled B-A-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe baver.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe baver.
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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