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bépo

French, noun/be.po/

bépo is spelled B-É-P-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 35 million words in written French, the 187,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bépo is a French masculine noun meaning “the French equivalent of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Disposition de touches ergonomique de claviers d’ordinateurs, à l’usage des francophones, élaborée sur les…”.

What does bépo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinethe French equivalent of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Disposition de touches ergonomique de claviers d’ordinateurs, à l’usage des francophones, élaborée sur les mêmes principes que le Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK), mise au point au début du XXIᵉ siècle pour faciliter la frappe du français et permettre un meilleur respect de la typographie.

noun: 1. Variante de bépo.

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 bépo

  • bépos plural
  • BÉPO

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce bépo?

  • /be.po/
  • \be.po\
  • \be.pɔ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is bépo in French?

bépo appears about once in every 35 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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