bend
The verdict
“bend” is uncommon French (frequency #53,157 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,157
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tournant (d’une rue), virage (d'une rue), courbe (d’un fleuve), pli (d’un coude, d’un genou).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bend · bend · French
bend · rank #53,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,157
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bemba
Nearest frequency peer: bemba (-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 « bend »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- barrot
barrot
46,847 corpus weight
- basin
basin
46,846 corpus weight
- bemba
bemba
46,845 corpus weight
- bend
bend
46,844 corpus weight
- beretta
beretta
46,843 corpus weight
- berserk
berserk
46,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bend » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bend » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bend is uncommon French at frequency #53,157 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bend, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bend, spelled B-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Tournant (d’une rue), virage (d'une rue), courbe (d’un fleuve), pli (d’un coude, d’un genou).
- 2Bande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The arms of Scrope is azure a bend or.
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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