bidouiller
\bi.du.je\
The verdict
“bidouiller” is uncommon French (frequency #59,832 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,832
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bricoler, fabriquer, transformer, trafiquer quelque chose, généralement de façon rapide et artisanale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bidouiller · bidouiller · French
bidouiller · rank #59,832 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,832
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bilodeau
Nearest frequency peer: Bilodeau (+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 « bidouiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- behavior
behavior
40,173 corpus weight
- beurres
beurres
40,171 corpus weight
- bidouiller
bidouiller
40,169 corpus weight
- Bilodeau
Bilodeau
40,168 corpus weight
- bitte
bitte
40,166 corpus weight
- blâment
blâment
40,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bidouiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bidouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bi.du.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bidouiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bidouiller is uncommon French at frequency #59,832 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bi.du.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bricoler, fabriquer, transformer, trafiquer quelque chose, généralement de façon rapide et artisanale.".
bidouiller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bidouiller, spelled B-I-D-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Bricoler, fabriquer, transformer, trafiquer quelque chose, généralement de façon rapide et artisanale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bidouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus d’une fois il en a dépanné des voisins, sachant qu’à Paris toute panne se vit comme un drame, un simple lavabo bouché, une fuite d’eau, une porte qui ne s’ouvre plus, ici ça prend tout de suite une ampleur gigantesque, systématiquement ruineuse alors que ça fait partie du cours normal des choses, les choses tombent en panne, elles se réparent, ça va…
De son côté, Bloomberg maintient ses informations et a même ajouté récemment que des ports Ethernet avaient été bidouillés pour écouter aux serveurs.
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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