BND
The verdict
“BND” is uncommon French (frequency #90,469 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,469
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service secret de la République fédérale d’Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bnd · BND · French
BND · rank #90,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,469
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bloquerait
Nearest frequency peer: bloquerait (-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 « BND »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BJP
BJP
9,535 corpus weight
- bleutées
bleutées
9,534 corpus weight
- bloquerait
bloquerait
9,533 corpus weight
- BND
BND
9,532 corpus weight
- bobs
bobs
9,531 corpus weight
- Boch
Boch
9,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BND » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BND |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #90,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « BND » en français
Rare enough to double-check
BND is uncommon French at frequency #90,469 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Service secret de la République fédérale d’Allemagne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for BND, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is BND, spelled B-N-D.
Definition
- 1Service secret de la République fédérale d’Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BND appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Otto Frutiger, directeur berlinois du BND, le service de renseignement ouest-allemand, a déjà grillé six de ces cigarettes américaines qu'il affectionne lorsque son chronomètre suisse indique 3 h 15.
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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