beagle
\biɡl\
The verdict
“beagle” is uncommon French (frequency #60,572 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,572
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien courant, originaire d’Angleterre, de taille petite à moyenne, à poil ras, unicolore, bicolore ou tricolore.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beagle · beagle · French
beagle · rank #60,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,572
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basso
Nearest frequency peer: basso (-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 « beagle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bartolomeo
Bartolomeo
39,432 corpus weight
- bassement
bassement
39,431 corpus weight
- basso
basso
39,430 corpus weight
- beagle
beagle
39,429 corpus weight
- bedaine
bedaine
39,427 corpus weight
- belot
belot
39,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beagle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beagle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \biɡl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beagle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beagle is uncommon French at frequency #60,572 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \biɡl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chien courant, originaire d’Angleterre, de taille petite à moyenne, à poil ras, unicolore, bicolore ou tricolore.".
beagle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is beagle, spelled B-E-A-G-L-E.
Definition
- 1Race de chien courant, originaire d’Angleterre, de taille petite à moyenne, à poil ras, unicolore, bicolore ou tricolore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how beagle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La propriétaire a déposé plainte, elle aussi : un homme et une femme (ressemblant au signalement fait par Nathalie) auraient appâté son beagle avec des friandises.
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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