bedonnant

adj

The verdict

“bedonnant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,802 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,802
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est doté d'un gros ventre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bedonnant · bedonnant · French

bedonnant · rank #81,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,802
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH basher

Nearest frequency peer: basher (-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 « bedonnant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bedonnant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bedonnant
PropertyValue
Headwordbedonnant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Frequency rank#81,802
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « bedonnant » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bedonnanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « basher » (#81,801), « bellum » (#81,803), « Barrington » (#81,800). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bedonnant » est au #81,802. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bedonnant is uncommon French at frequency #81,802 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est doté d'un gros ventre.".

bedonnant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bedonnant, spelled B-E-D-O-N-N-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est doté d'un gros ventre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bedonnant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il était courtaud, boulot, bedonnant, très laid: l'allure épaisse d'un chantre d'église.
  2. De prime abord, Moore l’avait reléguée dans la catégorie des nullardes coincées dont la virginité resterait intacte jusqu’à ce qu'un comptable bedonnant et palot ([…]) survienne et l’amène à céder de haute lutte […].

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bedonnant"?
"bedonnant" is spelled B-E-D-O-N-N-A-N-T.
What does "bedonnant" mean?
As an adjective, "bedonnant" means: Qui est doté d'un gros ventre.
What language does "bedonnant" come from?
"bedonnant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bedonnant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list