bez
\ˈbeː(s)\
The verdict
“bez” is uncommon French (frequency #83,646 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,646
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tombe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bez · bez · French
bez · rank #83,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,646
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bescond
Nearest frequency peer: Bescond (-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 « bez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- berrichon
berrichon
16,359 corpus weight
- Bescond
Bescond
16,356 corpus weight
- bez
bez
16,355 corpus weight
- bidouillé
bidouillé
16,354 corpus weight
- binoculaire
binoculaire
16,352 corpus weight
- biocides
biocides
16,351 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbeː(s)\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bez is uncommon French at frequency #83,646 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbeː(s)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bez, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bez, spelled B-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Tombe.
- 2Tombeau, sépulcre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ar gwele a zo heñvel ouz ar bez hag ar cʼhousked ouz ar maro.
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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