beira
\bɛ.ʁa\
The verdict
“beira” is uncommon French (frequency #73,757 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,757
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de petite antilope d’Afrique de l’Est.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beira · beira · French
beira · rank #73,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,757
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH becquerel
Nearest frequency peer: becquerel (-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 « beira »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Baudot
Baudot
26,247 corpus weight
- Baur
Baur
26,246 corpus weight
- becquerel
becquerel
26,245 corpus weight
- beira
beira
26,244 corpus weight
- Belgica
Belgica
26,243 corpus weight
- benoîte
benoîte
26,242 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beira » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beira |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beira » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beira is uncommon French at frequency #73,757 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de petite antilope d’Afrique de l’Est.".
beira doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is beira, spelled B-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petite antilope d’Afrique de l’Est.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how beira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Morphologiquement proche des gazelles, le beira habite les régions montagneuses de la Somalie, où il est endémique.
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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