bibliothèque
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,069
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
bibliothèque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Salle où sont conservés des livres, revues, dictionnaires, etc. Pronounced \bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk\. It ranks #2,069 in French word frequency. Often confused with bibliothèques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bibliothèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #2,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bibliothèque is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.bli.jɔ.tɛk\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,069 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for bibliothèque, with forms such as "bbibliothèque", "bbiliothèque", and "bibbliothèque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bibliothèques", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bibliothèque, spelled B-I-B-L-I-O-T-H-È-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Salle où sont conservés des livres, revues, dictionnaires, etc.
- 2Établissement où sont conservés des livres, revues, dictionnaires, etc., souvent ouvert au public et offrant la possibilité d’emprunter des ouvrages gratuitement.
- 3Collection organisée de livres.
- 4Meuble ou étagères spécialement destiné à ranger des livres.
- 5Administration en charge de la diffusion, conservation, documentation, préservation, restauration et de la mise en valeur du patrimoine livresque et bibliophilique.
- 6Traités contenant des extraits de différents auteurs ou le catalogue des livres qu’ils ont composés. Recueils où sont réunis des ouvrages de même nature ou traitant des sujets semblables.
- 7Ensemble homogène de sous-programmes utilisés sur un système informatique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbibliothèque,bbiliothèque,bibbliothèque,bibilothèque,bibliohtèque,bibliotheque,bibliothhèque,bibliothqèue,bibliothèqeu,bibliothèqque,bibliothèuqe,bibliotthèque,bibliotèhque,biblitohèque,biblliothèque,bibloithèque,bilbiothèque,ibbliothèque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bibliothèque
Misspelling Variants of "bibliothèque"
Frequency rank: #2,069 in French
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