BCG
\be.se.ʒe\
The verdict
“BCG” is uncommon French (frequency #55,770 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,770
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bilié de Calmette et Guérin, vaccin contre la tuberculose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bcg · BCG · French
BCG · rank #55,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,770
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bavette
Nearest frequency peer: bavette (-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 « BCG »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bangladais
bangladais
44,236 corpus weight
- battais
battais
44,233 corpus weight
- bavette
bavette
44,232 corpus weight
- BCG
BCG
44,231 corpus weight
- belleau
belleau
44,229 corpus weight
- benefit
benefit
44,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BCG » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BCG |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.se.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « BCG » en français
Rare enough to double-check
BCG is uncommon French at frequency #55,770 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.se.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for BCG, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is BCG, spelled B-C-G.
Definition
- 1Bilié de Calmette et Guérin, vaccin contre la tuberculose.
- 2Bacille de la tuberculose ou bacille de Koch ou Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BCG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Outre les 11 vaccins obligatoires pour les bébés et les enfants, la vaccination contre le BCG, le papillomavirus humain, la grippe et le zona est ainsi recommandée en France.
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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