budo
\ˈbu.do\
The verdict
“budo” is uncommon French (frequency #81,838 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,838
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kiosque, échoppe, stand, cabine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-budo · budo · French
budo · rank #81,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,838
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bulot
Nearest frequency peer: bulot (+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 « budo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Briois
Briois
18,167 corpus weight
- Brugge
Brugge
18,166 corpus weight
- Buckland
Buckland
18,165 corpus weight
- budo
budo
18,163 corpus weight
- bulot
bulot
18,162 corpus weight
- butcher
butcher
18,160 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « budo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | budo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbu.do\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « budo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
budo is uncommon French at frequency #81,838 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbu.do\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kiosque, échoppe, stand, cabine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for budo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is budo, spelled B-U-D-O.
Definition
- 1Kiosque, échoppe, stand, cabine.
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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