bicylindre
\bi.si.lɛ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“bicylindre” is uncommon French (frequency #90,460 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,460
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un moteur possédant deux cylindres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bicylindre · bicylindre · French
bicylindre · rank #90,460 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,460
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bichette
Nearest frequency peer: bichette (-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 « bicylindre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bertrix
Bertrix
9,544 corpus weight
- bichette
bichette
9,542 corpus weight
- bicylindre
bicylindre
9,541 corpus weight
- bigleux
bigleux
9,540 corpus weight
- biodisponib…
biodisponibilité
9,539 corpus weight
- Bischheim
Bischheim
9,537 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bicylindre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bicylindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.si.lɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bicylindre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bicylindre is uncommon French at frequency #90,460 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.si.lɛ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se dit d’un moteur possédant deux cylindres.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bicylindre, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bicylindre, spelled B-I-C-Y-L-I-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un moteur possédant deux cylindres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bicylindre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai toujours pensé qu’une 500 bicylindre, plus légère et plus étroite et donc mieux profilée pour les lignes droites, ça pouvait taper les quatre cylindres d’usine. Et je le crois toujours d'ailleurs !
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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