bacillus
\bə.ˈsɪl.əs\
The verdict
“bacillus” is uncommon French (frequency #71,267 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,267
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bacille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bacillus · bacillus · French
bacillus · rank #71,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,267
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baader
Nearest frequency peer: Baader (-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 « bacillus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- avit
avit
28,737 corpus weight
- aïeule
aïeule
28,736 corpus weight
- Baader
Baader
28,735 corpus weight
- bacillus
bacillus
28,734 corpus weight
- baggy
baggy
28,733 corpus weight
- baignades
baignades
28,732 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bacillus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bacillus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.ˈsɪl.əs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bacillus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bacillus is uncommon French at frequency #71,267 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bə.ˈsɪl.əs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bacille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bacillus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bacillus, spelled B-A-C-I-L-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1Bacille.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).