Bazeilles
The verdict
“Bazeilles” is uncommon French (frequency #88,371 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,371
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bazeilles · Bazeilles · French
Bazeilles · rank #88,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,371
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH batailleur
Nearest frequency peer: batailleur (-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 « Bazeilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bariolé
bariolé
11,634 corpus weight
- basanés
basanés
11,633 corpus weight
- batailleur
batailleur
11,631 corpus weight
- Bazeilles
Bazeilles
11,630 corpus weight
- bedeau
bedeau
11,627 corpus weight
- bedel
bedel
11,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bazeilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bazeilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bazeilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bazeilles is uncommon French at frequency #88,371 among 4,251 “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
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bazeilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Vendrène, Pont-Maugis et Bazeilles, on dit avoir pesé des grêlons de 250 grammes. Chez moi, à trois kilomètres de Pont-Maugis, la moyenne de ceux que j'ai pesés a été de deux grammes.
Ma pauvre enfant, vous voyez bien qu’il vous est impossible de passer… Ce n’est pas l’affaire d’une femme d’aller à Bazeilles en ce moment… vous le retrouverez plus tard, votre mari. Voyons, soyez raisonnable !
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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