bia
\bja\
The verdict
“bia” is uncommon French (frequency #51,915 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,915
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “bia” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bia is uncommon French at frequency #51,915 among 227,490 “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.
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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Using “bia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bja\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.