baya
\ba.ja\
The verdict
“baya” is uncommon French (frequency #82,712 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,712
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de bayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baya · baya · French
baya · rank #82,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,712
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH batteuses
Nearest frequency peer: batteuses (-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 « baya »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bascou
Bascou
17,292 corpus weight
- bastin
bastin
17,291 corpus weight
- batteuses
batteuses
17,290 corpus weight
- baya
baya
17,289 corpus weight
- BDP
BDP
17,287 corpus weight
- Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield
17,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baya » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.ja\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baya » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baya is uncommon French at frequency #82,712 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ba.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de bayer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for baya in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is baya, spelled B-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de bayer.
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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