bécassine
\be.ka.sin\
The verdict
“bécassine” is uncommon French (frequency #68,869 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,869
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier limicole, oiseau de passage plus petit qu’une bécasse, qui a aussi le bec fort long.
Corpus desk
Index FR-becassine · bécassine · French
bécassine · rank #68,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,869
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bénissez
Nearest frequency peer: bénissez (+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 « bécassine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brassées
brassées
31,137 corpus weight
- Brianna
Brianna
31,136 corpus weight
- bécassine
bécassine
31,132 corpus weight
- bénissez
bénissez
31,131 corpus weight
- caddies
caddies
31,129 corpus weight
- Cadot
Cadot
31,127 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bécassine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bécassine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ka.sin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bécassine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bécassine is uncommon French at frequency #68,869 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.ka.sin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bécassine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bécassine, spelled B-É-C-A-S-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau petit échassier limicole, oiseau de passage plus petit qu’une bécasse, qui a aussi le bec fort long.
- 2Femme stupide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bécassine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les espèces les plus communes sont la bécassine ordinaire, la double bécassine et la bécassine sourde.
[…], après une autre étape de quatre heures, atteignons Souk El-Arbâ (le marché du mercredi), dans un cirque rocheux où les pluies ont formé de nombreux étangs regorgeant d’oiseaux aquatiques : canards, poules d’eau, bécassines, hérons, etc.
Synonyms
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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