bédière
\be.djɛʁ\
The verdict
“bédière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cours d'eau en surface d'un glacier, alimenté par les eaux de fonte et de pluie, et qui forme une gorge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bediere · bédière · French
bédière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bédière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.djɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bédière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bédière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.djɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bédière has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 bédière, spelled B-É-D-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Cours d'eau en surface d'un glacier, alimenté par les eaux de fonte et de pluie, et qui forme une gorge.
- 2Mauvais lit, lit défait ou défectueux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bédière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pas très loin, une bédière s’engouffre dans les Grands Moulins et gronde jusqu’au fond du glacier.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.