bia
\bja\
The verdict
“bia” is uncommon French (frequency #51,915 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,915
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage originaire de l'Isère et donnant du raisin blanc. Il est inscrit à la liste des cépages autorisé mais n'est quasiment pas cultivé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bia · bia · French
bia · rank #51,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,915
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berlinoise
Nearest frequency peer: berlinoise (-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 « bia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Berliner
Berliner
48,088 corpus weight
- berlinoise
berlinoise
48,087 corpus weight
- bia
bia
48,086 corpus weight
- biliaires
biliaires
48,085 corpus weight
- Binche
Binche
48,084 corpus weight
- Bizerte
Bizerte
48,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bja\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bia is uncommon French at frequency #51,915 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cépage originaire de l'Isère et donnant du raisin blanc. Il est inscrit à la liste des cépages autorisé mais n'est quasiment pas cultivé.".
bia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 bia, spelled B-I-A.
Definition
- 1Cépage originaire de l'Isère et donnant du raisin blanc. Il est inscrit à la liste des cépages autorisé mais n'est quasiment pas cultivé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… ce seront bientôt une dizaine de nouveaux cépages qui vont renaître : bia, mècle de Bourgoin, mondeuse grise, sérénèze de Voreppe, servanin, hibou noir et blanc.
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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