bestial
\bɛs.tjal\
The verdict
“bestial” is uncommon French (frequency #52,515 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,515
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient de la bête, qui appartient à la bête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bestial · bestial · French
bestial · rank #52,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,515
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bergues
Nearest frequency peer: Bergues (-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 « bestial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bellucci
Bellucci
47,488 corpus weight
- Bergues
Bergues
47,487 corpus weight
- bestial
bestial
47,486 corpus weight
- biochimiques
biochimiques
47,485 corpus weight
- bisexualité
bisexualité
47,484 corpus weight
- bless
bless
47,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bestial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bestial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛs.tjal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bestial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bestial is uncommon French at frequency #52,515 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɛs.tjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bestial in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bestial, spelled B-E-S-T-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui tient de la bête, qui appartient à la bête.
- 2Qui fait ressembler l'homme à un animal.
- 3Zoophile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les instincts bestiaux assurent la survie des espèces.
L’épée lui était entrée dans le front et avait piqué la cervelle, coup défendu par les lois de la tauromachie, le matador devant passer le bras entre les cornes de l’animal et lui donner l’estocade entre la nuque et les épaules, ce qui augmente le danger de l’homme et donne quelque chance à son bestial adversaire.
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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