besognes
\bə.zɔɲ\
The verdict
“besognes” is uncommon French (frequency #72,112 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,112
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de besogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-besognes · besognes · French
besognes · rank #72,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,112
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BFR
Nearest frequency peer: BFR (+2 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 « besognes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Beaudet
Beaudet
27,894 corpus weight
- Beirut
Beirut
27,892 corpus weight
- besognes
besognes
27,889 corpus weight
- BFR
BFR
27,887 corpus weight
- Biard
Biard
27,886 corpus weight
- bienfaisant
bienfaisant
27,885 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « besognes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besognes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.zɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « besognes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
besognes is uncommon French at frequency #72,112 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bə.zɔɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de besogne.".
besognes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is besognes, spelled B-E-S-O-G-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de besogne.
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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