bazar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,612
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bazar is aFrenchnoun. It means: Marché public, lieu destiné au commerce en Orient. Pronounced \ba.zaʁ\. Often confused with bear and bazin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bazar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bazar is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.zaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,612 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bazar, with forms such as "abzar", "baazr", and "bazarr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bear", "bazin", "blazer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bazar, spelled B-A-Z-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marché public, lieu destiné au commerce en Orient.
- 2Lieu couvert où sont réunis des marchands tenant des boutiques d’étoffes, de meubles, de bijouterie, etc.
- 3Vaste magasin où se vendent au détail des marchandises diverses, généralement à bas prix.
- 4Fourbi, grand désordre.
- 5Ensemble d’objets et de matériels divers.
- 6Lycée.
- 7Sorte de lit mobile pour les douaniers en embuscade.
- 8Sexe de l’homme ou de la femme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abzar,baazr,bazarr,bazra,bazzar,bbazar,bzaar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bazar
Misspelling Variants of "bazar"
Frequency rank: #14,612 in French
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