bactériens
\bak.te.ʁjɛ̃\
The verdict
“bactériens” is uncommon French (frequency #79,076 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,076
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bactérien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bacteriens · bactériens · French
bactériens · rank #79,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,076
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bache
Nearest frequency peer: Bache (-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 « bactériens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- babs
babs
20,927 corpus weight
- Bache
Bache
20,926 corpus weight
- bactériens
bactériens
20,925 corpus weight
- bafouent
bafouent
20,924 corpus weight
- baisées
baisées
20,923 corpus weight
- ballasts
ballasts
20,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bactériens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bactériens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bak.te.ʁjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bactériens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bactériens is uncommon French at frequency #79,076 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bak.te.ʁjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bactérien.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bactériens in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bactériens, spelled B-A-C-T-É-R-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bactérien.
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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