beard
\ˈbɪɹd\
The verdict
“beard” is uncommon French (frequency #65,732 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,732
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beard · beard · French
beard · rank #65,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,732
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beans
Nearest frequency peer: beans (-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 « beard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bastons
bastons
34,273 corpus weight
- batiste
batiste
34,271 corpus weight
- beans
beans
34,270 corpus weight
- beard
beard
34,269 corpus weight
- Bensoussan
Bensoussan
34,266 corpus weight
- Betclic
Betclic
34,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɪɹd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beard is uncommon French at frequency #65,732 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbɪɹd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Barbe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beard, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is beard, spelled B-E-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Barbe.
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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