bétonner
\be.tɔ.ne\
The verdict
“bétonner” is uncommon French (frequency #81,845 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,845
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construire en béton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-betonner · bétonner · French
bétonner · rank #81,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,845
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Béland
Nearest frequency peer: Béland (-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 « bétonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Béchu
Béchu
18,159 corpus weight
- béguinage
béguinage
18,158 corpus weight
- Béland
Béland
18,157 corpus weight
- bétonner
bétonner
18,156 corpus weight
- cabeza
cabeza
18,154 corpus weight
- cacatoès
cacatoès
18,153 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bétonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bétonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \be.tɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bétonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bétonner is uncommon French at frequency #81,845 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \be.tɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bétonner in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bétonner, spelled B-É-T-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Construire en béton.
- 2Recouvrir, consolider avec du béton.
- 3Rendre solide et sûr.
- 4Construire, particulièrement sur des terrains autrefois vierges de constructions.
- 5Faire de l’obstruction systématique pendant un débat ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bétonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a quelque chose de nouveau, clairement. Aujourd’hui, les promoteurs ne peuvent plus bétonner en paix. Ce n’était pas le cas il y a vingt ans.
Synonyms
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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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