bayes
\baj\
The verdict
“bayes” is uncommon French (frequency #78,168 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,168
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bayes · bayes · French
bayes · rank #78,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,168
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH battantes
Nearest frequency peer: battantes (-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 « bayes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bantu
bantu
21,837 corpus weight
- baromètres
baromètres
21,836 corpus weight
- bascules
bascules
21,835 corpus weight
- battantes
battantes
21,834 corpus weight
- bayes
bayes
21,833 corpus weight
- beatbox
beatbox
21,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bayes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bayes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \baj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bayes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bayes is uncommon French at frequency #78,168 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \baj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bayes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bayes, spelled B-A-Y-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bayer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe 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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