bielle
\bjɛl\
The verdict
“bielle” is uncommon French (frequency #62,090 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,090
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tige rigide, articulée à ses deux extrémités, servant à communiquer ou à transformer le mouvement entre deux pièces mobiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bielle · bielle · French
bielle · rank #62,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,090
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH binding
Nearest frequency peer: binding (+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 « bielle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Baïkal
Baïkal
37,916 corpus weight
- bielle
bielle
37,911 corpus weight
- binding
binding
37,910 corpus weight
- Biolay
Biolay
37,909 corpus weight
- biscuiterie
biscuiterie
37,908 corpus weight
- Blackwood
Blackwood
37,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bielle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bielle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bielle is uncommon French at frequency #62,090 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bielle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bielle, spelled B-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Tige rigide, articulée à ses deux extrémités, servant à communiquer ou à transformer le mouvement entre deux pièces mobiles.
- 2Dans un moteur, pièce reliant le vilebrequin au piston.
- 3Pièce qui sert à lever la bascule dans une machine de fonderie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bielle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je pense qu’une bielle défectueuse (on avait, assure-t-on, commandé en Angleterre une pièce de rechange, restée en souffrance à la douane) a risqué d’anéantir ces virtualités, quand je constate par ailleurs le peu qui reste de la plupart des vies actualisées et vécues, j’ai du mal à attacher beaucoup d’importance à ces carambolages du hasard.
Les bielles du Diesel font des éclairs humides, barattent ce jet de lumière.
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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