bedonnant
The verdict
“bedonnant” is an uncommon French word, ranked #81,802 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #81,802
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui est doté d'un gros ventre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bedonnant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bedonnant” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bedonnant is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #81,802 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1Qui est doté d'un gros ventre.
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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Using “bedonnant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-D-O-N-N-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.