biathlète
\bi.a.tlɛt\
The verdict
“biathlète” is uncommon French (frequency #79,985 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,985
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sportif pratiquant le biathlon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biathlete · biathlète · French
biathlète · rank #79,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,985
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beys
Nearest frequency peer: beys (-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 « biathlète »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Betts
Betts
20,018 corpus weight
- beys
beys
20,017 corpus weight
- biathlète
biathlète
20,016 corpus weight
- Bingen
Bingen
20,015 corpus weight
- biophysique
biophysique
20,014 corpus weight
- Bixente
Bixente
20,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biathlète » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biathlète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.a.tlɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biathlète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biathlète is uncommon French at frequency #79,985 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.a.tlɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sportif pratiquant le biathlon.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for biathlète in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is biathlète, spelled B-I-A-T-H-L-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sportif pratiquant le biathlon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biathlète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Artiste mais aussi perfectionniste, le Catalan regrettait cette maladresse inhabituelle au tir qui étonnait même ses rivaux tels Bergman, qualifiant le Français "d’un biathlète très spécial tant sur les skis qu’au tir".
La biathlète française Julia Simon a triomphé sur une mass-start de haute volée à Ruhpolding (Allemagne), dimanche, face à sa rivale italienne Lisa Vittozi et une autre Française, Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).