bavette
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#55,769
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bavette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bavoir, petite pièce de tissu qu’on attache sous le menton des jeunes enfants pour recevoir la bave, la salive qui coule souvent de leur bouche. Pronounced \ba.vɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bavette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bavette is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.vɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,769 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bavette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bavette, spelled B-A-V-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bavoir, petite pièce de tissu qu’on attache sous le menton des jeunes enfants pour recevoir la bave, la salive qui coule souvent de leur bouche.
- 2Partie de tablier, couvrant la poitrine.
- 3Pièce de cuir protégeant la poitrine. Partie de tablier ou de salopette couvrant la poitrine.
- 4Pièce de cuir reliée à la selle, protégeant le passage de sangle du cheval des éventuels coups de sabots de ses jambes antérieures lors des sauts d’obstacles.
- 5Bandes de métal assurant l’étanchéité d’une couverture, du devant d’une fenêtre etc.
- 6Protection à l’arrière des passages de roue d’une automobile pour éviter les projections de boue.
- 7Pièce de viande bovine provenant du flanc de l’animal.
- 8Repli de peau au niveau de la gorge que peut présenter une oie (une oie de Toulouse).
- 9Écume du bord de la mer.
- 10Masque chirurgical ou masque en tissu employé lors de l'épidémie de COVID-19.
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Frequency rank: #55,769 in French
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