bécaud
\be.ko\
The verdict
“bécaud” is uncommon French (frequency #88,424 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,424
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seul restant d’un couple ou d'une paire (se dit d'objets tout comme de personnes).
Corpus desk
Index FR-becaud · bécaud · French
bécaud · rank #88,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,424
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bursa
Nearest frequency peer: bursa (-2 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 « bécaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brème
brème
11,582 corpus weight
- buissière
buissière
11,581 corpus weight
- Buonaparte
Buonaparte
11,580 corpus weight
- bursa
bursa
11,579 corpus weight
- bécaud
bécaud
11,577 corpus weight
- caldeira
caldeira
11,573 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bécaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bécaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bécaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bécaud is uncommon French at frequency #88,424 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Seul restant d’un couple ou d'une paire (se dit d'objets tout comme de personnes).".
No misspelling variants are generated for bécaud in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bécaud, spelled B-É-C-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Seul restant d’un couple ou d'une paire (se dit d'objets tout comme de personnes).
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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