biel
\bʲjɛl\
The verdict
“biel” is uncommon French (frequency #61,339 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,339
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blanc, couleur blanche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biel · biel · French
biel · rank #61,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,339
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bidault
Nearest frequency peer: Bidault (-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 « biel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- benjamins
benjamins
38,668 corpus weight
- Bernal
Bernal
38,667 corpus weight
- Bernd
Bernd
38,666 corpus weight
- Bidault
Bidault
38,663 corpus weight
- biel
biel
38,662 corpus weight
- bikers
bikers
38,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʲjɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #61,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biel is uncommon French at frequency #61,339 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bʲjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for biel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is biel, spelled B-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Blanc, couleur blanche.
- 2Vêtement blanc.
- 3Aubier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Na niebie rysowała się tu i ówdzie czysta biel delikatnych obłoczków.
Dobrze jej w bieli – to ją odmładza.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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