Bessemer
\bɛs.mɛʁ\
The verdict
“Bessemer” is uncommon French (frequency #93,528 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,528
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Convertisseur de fonte en acier reposant sur le procédé Bessemer (injection d’oxygène dans le métal en fusion).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bessemer · Bessemer · French
Bessemer · rank #93,528 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,528
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beugler
Nearest frequency peer: beugler (+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 « Bessemer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bekaa
Bekaa
6,477 corpus weight
- Bessemer
Bessemer
6,473 corpus weight
- beugler
beugler
6,472 corpus weight
- beure
beure
6,471 corpus weight
- beurrier
beurrier
6,470 corpus weight
- Bhopal
Bhopal
6,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bessemer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bessemer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛs.mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bessemer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bessemer is uncommon French at frequency #93,528 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛs.mɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Bessemer in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Bessemer, spelled B-E-S-S-E-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Convertisseur de fonte en acier reposant sur le procédé Bessemer (injection d’oxygène dans le métal en fusion).
- 2Acier obtenu par le procédé Bessemer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bessemer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet établissement est pourvu des moyens de fabrication les plus récents ; il se compose de deux hauts fourneaux, d’un Bessemer et d’un four Siemens Martin, d’une fonderie et d’un atelier de construction.
Cette matte en fusion est alors introduite dans des Bessemers, qui permettent d’éliminer le fer par soufflage.
Synonyms
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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