bibine
\bi.bin\
The verdict
“bibine” is uncommon French (frequency #88,384 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,384
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cabaret de bas étage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bibine · bibine · French
bibine · rank #88,384 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,384
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berti
Nearest frequency peer: berti (-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 « bibine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Berryer
Berryer
11,620 corpus weight
- berserker
berserker
11,619 corpus weight
- berti
berti
11,618 corpus weight
- bibine
bibine
11,617 corpus weight
- Bigeard
Bigeard
11,616 corpus weight
- bikes
bikes
11,615 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bibine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bibine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.bin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bibine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bibine is uncommon French at frequency #88,384 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.bin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bibine has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bibine, spelled B-I-B-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Cabaret de bas étage.
- 2Boisson de mauvaise qualité. Mauvaise bière, mauvais vin, piquette.
- 3Rien, pas grand-chose, chose de peu de valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bibine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apprenez encore ceci : les cabarets des chiffonniers s’appellent bibines ; les plus célèbres sont la Casserole et l’Abattoir.
— […] j’ai fréquenté la bibine de la rue des Anglais. — La bibine ? répéta Scaër. — Oui, c’est un cabaret où il n’y a que des ivrognes et des voleurs.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).