Bazeilles

name

The verdict

“Bazeilles” is uncommon French (frequency #88,371 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,371
frequency rank, French
227,490
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.

Key facts for Bazeilles
PropertyValue
HeadwordBazeilles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#88,371
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Bazeilles” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Bazeilles lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Bazeilles is uncommon French at frequency #88,371 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bazeilles, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Bazeilles, spelled B-A-Z-E-I-L-L-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bazeilles"?
"Bazeilles" is spelled B-A-Z-E-I-L-L-E-S.
What does "Bazeilles" mean?
As a proper noun, "Bazeilles" means: Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
What language does "Bazeilles" come from?
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Using “Bazeilles”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is B-A-Z-E-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list