bayonnais
\ba.jɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“bayonnais” is uncommon French (frequency #57,103 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,103
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Bayon, commune française située dans le département de la Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bayonnais · bayonnais · French
bayonnais · rank #57,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,103
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bayreuth
Nearest frequency peer: Bayreuth (+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 « bayonnais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baroudeur
baroudeur
42,901 corpus weight
- batz
batz
42,900 corpus weight
- bayonnais
bayonnais
42,898 corpus weight
- Bayreuth
Bayreuth
42,897 corpus weight
- beg
beg
42,896 corpus weight
- belliqueuse
belliqueuse
42,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bayonnais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bayonnais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.jɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bayonnais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bayonnais is uncommon French at frequency #57,103 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ba.jɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
bayonnais has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bayonnais, spelled B-A-Y-O-N-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Bayon, commune française située dans le département de la Meurthe-et-Moselle.
- 2Relatif à Bayonne, commune française située dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
- 3Relatif à Bayons, commune française située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
- 4Relatif à Sainte-Élisabeth, municipalité québécoise ^([1]).
- 5Relatif à Sainte-Élisabeth, ancienne municipalité de paroisse québécoise ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bayonnais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1932, une bande de copains bayonnais s’est dit : « Si on organisait ici des fêtes comme celles de Pampelune ? »
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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