bearing
\ˈbɛɹ.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“bearing” is uncommon French (frequency #92,465 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,465
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui supporte de poids de quelque chose
Corpus desk
Index FR-bearing · bearing · French
bearing · rank #92,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,465
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bavant
Nearest frequency peer: bavant (-2 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 « bearing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baptisant
baptisant
7,540 corpus weight
- bateleur
bateleur
7,539 corpus weight
- bavant
bavant
7,538 corpus weight
- bearing
bearing
7,536 corpus weight
- Beitrag
Beitrag
7,534 corpus weight
- bellatrix
bellatrix
7,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bearing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bearing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbɛɹ.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bearing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bearing is uncommon French at frequency #92,465 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈbɛɹ.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui supporte de poids de quelque chose".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bearing, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bearing, spelled B-E-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Qui supporte de poids de quelque chose
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bearing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A bearing wall.
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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