bede
The verdict
“bede” is uncommon French (frequency #78,173 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,173
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bede · bede · French
bede · rank #78,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,173
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beatbox
Nearest frequency peer: beatbox (-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 « bede »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bayes
bayes
21,833 corpus weight
- beatbox
beatbox
21,830 corpus weight
- bede
bede
21,828 corpus weight
- belladone
belladone
21,826 corpus weight
- bellas
bellas
21,825 corpus weight
- Belloubet
Belloubet
21,824 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bede » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bede |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bede » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bede is uncommon French at frequency #78,173 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bede has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bede, spelled B-E-D-E.
Definition
- 1Prière.
- 2Rosaire (voir bead).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bede appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
By Allah thy bede is good indeed and right is thy rede!
Because of the length of the original rosary, it became customary to pay someone, usually a resident of an almshouse, to recite the prayers. These people were referred to as bede women or men, and it was they who made the first bead flowers.
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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