bedel
The verdict
“bedel” is uncommon French (frequency #88,375 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,375
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Milicien, soldat en arme → voir pitaud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bedel · bedel · French
bedel · rank #88,375 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,375
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bedeau
Nearest frequency peer: bedeau (-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 « bedel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- batailleur
batailleur
11,631 corpus weight
- Bazeilles
Bazeilles
11,630 corpus weight
- bedeau
bedeau
11,627 corpus weight
- bedel
bedel
11,626 corpus weight
- Bejo
Bejo
11,625 corpus weight
- BEPC
BEPC
11,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bedel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bedel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bedel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bedel is uncommon French at frequency #88,375 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bedel in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bedel, spelled B-E-D-E-L.
Definition
- 1Milicien, soldat en arme → voir pitaud.
- 2Bedeau, bidel, officier subalterne chargé de la police, de l'ordre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bedel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tant i a prevoz et bedels, Et tant bailliz viez et nouvels, [que les paysans] Ne puent aveir paiz nule heure.
Nous commandons que baillifz, ne prevos ne autres ne tieignent trop grant plenté de serjans ne de bediaus, pource que le peuple ne soit grevé
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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