bédouin
\be.dwɛ̃\
The verdict
“bédouin” is uncommon French (frequency #63,587 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,587
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Bédouins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bedouin · bédouin · French
bédouin · rank #63,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,587
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bâillement
Nearest frequency peer: bâillement (-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 « bédouin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bumper
bumper
36,419 corpus weight
- Burrell
Burrell
36,417 corpus weight
- Busquets
Busquets
36,416 corpus weight
- bâillement
bâillement
36,415 corpus weight
- bédouin
bédouin
36,414 corpus weight
- cabri
cabri
36,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bédouin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bédouin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \be.dwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bédouin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bédouin is uncommon French at frequency #63,587 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \be.dwɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bédouin, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bédouin, spelled B-É-D-O-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Bédouins.
- 2Relatif aux communautés nomades, tribales.
- 3Relatif au Versoud, commune française située dans le département de l’Isère.
- 4Relatif à Longessaigne, commune française située dans le département du Rhône.
- 5Relatif à Plénise, commune française située dans le département du Jura.
- 6Relatif à Port, commune française située dans le département de l’Ain.
- 7Relatif à Précy-Notre-Dame, commune française située dans le département de l’Aube.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bédouin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Yasmina jouait distraitement avec des brindilles vertes et chantait une complainte bédouine où, comme dans la vie, l’amour et la mort se côtoient.
Casablanca est une ville bédouine. Le gros de sa population se recrute parmi les tribus voisines.
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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