bazard
\ba.zaʁ\
The verdict
“bazard” is uncommon French (frequency #83,633 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,633
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de bazar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bazard · bazard · French
bazard · rank #83,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,633
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baves
Nearest frequency peer: baves (-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 « bazard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bassiner
bassiner
16,371 corpus weight
- bassinet
bassinet
16,370 corpus weight
- baves
baves
16,369 corpus weight
- bazard
bazard
16,368 corpus weight
- België
België
16,366 corpus weight
- belliqueuses
belliqueuses
16,365 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bazard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bazard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.zaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bazard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bazard is uncommon French at frequency #83,633 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.zaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de bazar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bazard, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bazard, spelled B-A-Z-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de bazar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bazard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et la rue Grande, si déserte en semaine, malgré ses beaux magasins, sa pharmacie, sa quincaillerie, surtout des Nouveautés parisiennes, le bazard de Lambourdieu, n’était plus assez large chaque samedi, les boutiques combles, la chaussée barrée par l’envahissement des marchands.
Tous les soirs, les bazards sont fermés par de lourdes portes dont les clefs sont entre les mains du gouverneur.
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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