Bayon
\ba.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“Bayon” is uncommon French (frequency #59,823 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,823
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bayon · Bayon · French
Bayon · rank #59,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,823
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BBW
Nearest frequency peer: BBW (+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 « Bayon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bate
bate
40,181 corpus weight
- bateliers
bateliers
40,180 corpus weight
- Bayon
Bayon
40,178 corpus weight
- BBW
BBW
40,177 corpus weight
- BDD
BDD
40,176 corpus weight
- beale
beale
40,175 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bayon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bayon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bayon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bayon is uncommon French at frequency #59,823 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ba.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Bayon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Bayon, spelled B-A-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Meurthe-et-Moselle.
- 2Ancien nom de la commune française de Bayon-sur-Gironde.
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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