bêche
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,696
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bêche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Outil formé d’un fer aplati et tranchant monté sur un manche de bois et qui sert à couper, creuser et à remuer la terre. Pronounced \bɛʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bêche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bêche is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,696 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bêche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bêche, spelled B-Ê-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Outil formé d’un fer aplati et tranchant monté sur un manche de bois et qui sert à couper, creuser et à remuer la terre.
- 2Genre de soc permettant d’ancrer un canon en terre.
- 3Fondation d'un mur quand celle-ci est plus large que le mur, de façon à lui donner une meilleure assise. Empâtement du bord d'une semelle de fondation.
- 4Coléoptère à corps plat et brillant, dont la larve détruit les bourgeons des arbres fruitiers et de la vigne.
- 5Nom donné à divers insectes qui rongent les bourgeons de la vigne, incluant plusieurs coléoptères tels l'eumolpe (Bromius obscurus), l'attelabe (Byctiscus betulae) et le rhynchite bacchus (Rhynchites bacchus), ainsi que des lépidoptères tels la pyrale de la vigne (Sparganothis pilleriana).
- 6Nom donné à certains bateaux à fond plat naviguant sur le Rhône.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #50,696 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "bêche"?
What does "bêche" mean?
How do you pronounce "bêche"?
What language does "bêche" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: