banquière
\bɑ̃.kjɛʁ\
The verdict
“banquière” is uncommon French (frequency #59,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,098
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui fait le commerce de banque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banquiere · banquière · French
banquière · rank #59,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,098
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Banff
Nearest frequency peer: Banff (-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 « banquière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Balmain
Balmain
40,906 corpus weight
- bandant
bandant
40,905 corpus weight
- Banff
Banff
40,904 corpus weight
- banquière
banquière
40,903 corpus weight
- barba
barba
40,902 corpus weight
- barral
barral
40,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « banquière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banquière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.kjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « banquière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
banquière is uncommon French at frequency #59,098 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɑ̃.kjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
banquière has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is banquière, spelled B-A-N-Q-U-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui fait le commerce de banque.
- 2Celle qui tient le jeu contre tous ceux qui veulent jouer avec lui et qui met sur table une certaine somme d’argent pour les payer lorsqu’ils gagnent.
- 3Épouse ou maitresse d’un banquier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how banquière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On la surnomme “la ravissante banquière” aussi bien que “Madame 8 %”, le rendement promis.
En France, plus d’un banquier sur deux est une banquière
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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