bedon
\bə.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“bedon” is uncommon French (frequency #86,459 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,459
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tambour à caisse hémisphérique semblable au nacaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bedon · bedon · French
bedon · rank #86,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,459
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bazille
Nearest frequency peer: Bazille (-3 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 « bedon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bassorah
Bassorah
13,547 corpus weight
- Batiscan
Batiscan
13,546 corpus weight
- Bazille
Bazille
13,545 corpus weight
- bedon
bedon
13,542 corpus weight
- Belzébuth
Belzébuth
13,539 corpus weight
- bengal
bengal
13,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bedon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bedon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bedon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bedon is uncommon French at frequency #86,459 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bə.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bedon, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bedon, spelled B-E-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Tambour à caisse hémisphérique semblable au nacaire.
- 2Bedaine, ventre replet.
- 3Homme gros et gras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bedon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bedon de Suisse est semblable à une grosse caisse.
L’autre dimanche, devant le miroir, en laissant tomber mes derniers voiles, je me suis surpris, avec une pointe d’orgueil, une pointe de bedon.
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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