beefsteak
French, noun/bif.stɛk/
beefsteak is spelled B-E-E-F-S-T-E-A-K (9 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 144,513th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beefsteak is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of bifteck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de bifteck”.
What does beefsteak mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of bifteck
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de bifteck.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of beefsteak
- beefsteaks plural
- bifteck
- biftèque
- beefteak obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce beefsteak?
- /bif.stɛk/
- \bif.tɛk\
- \bif.stɛk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is beefsteak in French?
beefsteak appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).