bactérien
\bak.te.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“bactérien” is uncommon French (frequency #58,435 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,435
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux bactéries.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bacterien · bactérien · French
bactérien · rank #58,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,435
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH babar
Nearest frequency peer: babar (-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 « bactérien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Azawad
Azawad
41,570 corpus weight
- babar
babar
41,567 corpus weight
- bactérien
bactérien
41,566 corpus weight
- Bahrain
Bahrain
41,564 corpus weight
- bais
bais
41,563 corpus weight
- baissière
baissière
41,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bactérien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bactérien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bak.te.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bactérien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bactérien is uncommon French at frequency #58,435 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bak.te.ʁjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif aux bactéries.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bactérien, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 bactérien, spelled B-A-C-T-É-R-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux bactéries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bactérien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comment surveiller, diagnostiquer et refréner la fièvre Q dans son élevage ? La lutte contre cette zoonose bactérienne très répandue dans les troupeaux de ruminants est encore floue.
La numération bactérienne est l'opération de comptage des micro-organismes dans un milieu de culture ou le résultat de cette opération.
This word in other languages
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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