bibelot
\bi.blo\
The verdict
“bibelot” is uncommon French (frequency #81,808 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,808
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit objet décoratif, souvent fait de verre ou de porcelaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bibelot · bibelot · French
bibelot · rank #81,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,808
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biaiser
Nearest frequency peer: biaiser (-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 « bibelot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Benattia
Benattia
18,197 corpus weight
- biaiser
biaiser
18,194 corpus weight
- bibelot
bibelot
18,193 corpus weight
- bique
bique
18,192 corpus weight
- blister
blister
18,191 corpus weight
- Blume
Blume
18,189 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bibelot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bibelot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.blo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bibelot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bibelot is uncommon French at frequency #81,808 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.blo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit objet décoratif, souvent fait de verre ou de porcelaine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bibelot, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bibelot, spelled B-I-B-E-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Petit objet décoratif, souvent fait de verre ou de porcelaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bibelot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le bibelot encore, et encore le bibelot dans les brasseries d’étudiants où le fils du bourgeois de province accoude sa flânerie sur une table de style, devant un verre de façon ancienne, sous une lumière tamisée par des vitraux coloriés.
Je me borne à signaler les lévriers anglais, écossais, russes, les bull-dogs ; puis les chiens d’appartement, havanais, carlins, et ces délicieux terriers du Yorkshire qui atteignent au rang de véritables bibelots.
This word in other languages
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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