bachelière
\ba.ʃə.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“bachelière” is uncommon French (frequency #96,643 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,643
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élève diplômée au baccalauréat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bacheliere · bachelière · French
bachelière · rank #96,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,643
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bacqué
Nearest frequency peer: Bacqué (+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 « bachelière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- axones
axones
3,363 corpus weight
- bachelière
bachelière
3,358 corpus weight
- Bacqué
Bacqué
3,357 corpus weight
- Bagration
Bagration
3,356 corpus weight
- baisaient
baisaient
3,354 corpus weight
- balistes
balistes
3,353 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bachelière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bachelière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʃə.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bachelière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bachelière is uncommon French at frequency #96,643 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.ʃə.ljɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bachelière, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bachelière, spelled B-A-C-H-E-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Élève diplômée au baccalauréat.
- 2Maitresse d’un bachelier (au xixᵉ siècle).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bachelière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A 15 ans, elle est la plus jeune bachelière de La Réunion.
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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