bigouden
\bi.ɡu.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“bigouden” is uncommon French (frequency #95,603 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,603
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coiffe de lin ou de coton portée dans la région de Pont-l’Abbé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bigouden · bigouden · French
bigouden · rank #95,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,603
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Betz
Nearest frequency peer: Betz (-2 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 « bigouden »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- berlinette
berlinette
4,402 corpus weight
- berthon
berthon
4,401 corpus weight
- Betz
Betz
4,400 corpus weight
- bigouden
bigouden
4,398 corpus weight
- bisset
bisset
4,396 corpus weight
- bitumes
bitumes
4,395 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bigouden » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bigouden |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ɡu.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bigouden » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bigouden is uncommon French at frequency #95,603 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ɡu.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bigouden has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bigouden, spelled B-I-G-O-U-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1Coiffe de lin ou de coton portée dans la région de Pont-l’Abbé.
- 2Femme portant cette coiffe.
- 3Breton du pays de Pont-l’Abbé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bigouden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Çà et là, un homme de Pont-l’Abbé étale fièrement ses vestes superposées, où se détachent des lisérés de laine aux couleurs vives et parfois un saint ciboire brodé dans le dos. Les femmes de ce même bourg, dont la figure étrange rappelle le type lapon, portent les cheveux ramenés au sommet de la tête et maintenus par une étroite coiffure de doreloterie no…
Très fortes, voûtées, la taille épaisse, elles [les femmes de Plomeur] portent trois jupes de drap superposées, (…) et elles sont coiffées de l’étrange bigouden, espèce de serre-tête bariolé qui leur cache les oreilles et laisse voir, par derrière, les cheveux relevés.
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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