bégaie
\be.ɡɛ\
The verdict
“bégaie” is uncommon French (frequency #72,986 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,986
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bégayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-begaie · bégaie · French
bégaie · rank #72,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,986
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH burst
Nearest frequency peer: burst (-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 « bégaie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bundesbank
Bundesbank
27,017 corpus weight
- burst
burst
27,016 corpus weight
- bégaie
bégaie
27,015 corpus weight
- Bénarès
Bénarès
27,014 corpus weight
- cadrent
cadrent
27,013 corpus weight
- calices
calices
27,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bégaie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bégaie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \be.ɡɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bégaie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bégaie is uncommon French at frequency #72,986 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \be.ɡɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bégaie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 bégaie, spelled B-É-G-A-I-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bégayer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bégayer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bégayer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe bégayer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe bégayer.
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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