bedaine
\bə.dɛn\
The verdict
“bedaine” is uncommon French (frequency #60,574 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,574
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Panse ; gros ventre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bedaine · bedaine · French
bedaine · rank #60,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,574
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH belot
Nearest frequency peer: belot (+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 « bedaine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- basso
basso
39,430 corpus weight
- beagle
beagle
39,429 corpus weight
- bedaine
bedaine
39,427 corpus weight
- belot
belot
39,426 corpus weight
- Berkshire
Berkshire
39,425 corpus weight
- Bernardino
Bernardino
39,424 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bedaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bedaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.dɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bedaine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bedaine is uncommon French at frequency #60,574 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bə.dɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Panse ; gros ventre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bedaine, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bedaine, spelled B-E-D-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Panse ; gros ventre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bedaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tacherot s’esclaffa, sa bedaine tressautant d’aise, les paupières plissées.
Ce qui me blesse les yeux, quant à moi, vocifère Coselli, ce qui me blesse les yeux, c'est votre louche nombril, votre ombilic obscène, la peau de tambour moisie de votre bedaine, votre exhibitionnisme sénile, Géronte de la galonnaille, Ratapoil de fête nationale, bubon du chancre militaire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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