béguines
\be.ɡin\
The verdict
“béguines” is uncommon French (frequency #87,408 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,408
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de béguine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beguines · béguines · French
béguines · rank #87,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,408
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH buttons
Nearest frequency peer: buttons (-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 « béguines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- butins
butins
12,596 corpus weight
- butternut
butternut
12,595 corpus weight
- buttons
buttons
12,594 corpus weight
- béguines
béguines
12,593 corpus weight
- cabotin
cabotin
12,591 corpus weight
- cacahouète
cacahouète
12,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « béguines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | béguines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.ɡin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « béguines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
béguines is uncommon French at frequency #87,408 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.ɡin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de béguine.".
Zero misspellings are on record for béguines in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is béguines, spelled B-É-G-U-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de béguine.
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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