bid
\ˈbɪd\
The verdict
“bid” is uncommon French (frequency #62,812 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,812
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enchère, offre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bid · bid · French
bid · rank #62,812 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,812
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beigne
Nearest frequency peer: beigne (-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 « bid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bassa
bassa
37,191 corpus weight
- beigne
beigne
37,190 corpus weight
- bid
bid
37,189 corpus weight
- bifurquer
bifurquer
37,188 corpus weight
- Björk
Björk
37,187 corpus weight
- blotti
blotti
37,186 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbɪd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bid is uncommon French at frequency #62,812 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enchère, offre.".
bid has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bid, spelled B-I-D.
Definition
- 1Enchère, offre.
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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