Bier
\biːɐ̯\
The verdict
“Bier” is uncommon French (frequency #75,441 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,441
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bier · Bier · French
Bier · rank #75,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,441
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bev
Nearest frequency peer: bev (-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 « Bier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bertignac
Bertignac
24,563 corpus weight
- bev
bev
24,561 corpus weight
- Bier
Bier
24,560 corpus weight
- biomédicales
biomédicales
24,559 corpus weight
- biotopes
biotopes
24,558 corpus weight
- bipartisme
bipartisme
24,557 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \biːɐ̯\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bier is uncommon French at frequency #75,441 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \biːɐ̯\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bier, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Bier, spelled B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Bière.
- 2Un verre, ou une bouteille, de bière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(Stefan W.) hatte zu dem Zeitpunkt etwa vier Mass Bier getrunken. Warum die Polizei einen Alkoholtest bei Luisa T. durchführte, bei Stefan W. aber nicht, bleibt ihr Geheimnis.
Die Luftgitarren-WM ist aber nicht der einzige kuriose Wettbewerb, der in Finnland abgehalten wird. So findet im Ort Sonkajärvi jedes Jahr die Weltmeisterschaft im Frauentragen statt. Es gewinnt, wer am schnellsten seine Partnerin oder seinen Partner durch einen Hindernisparcours trägt. Das siegreiche Paar erhält das Gewicht der getragenen Person in Bier.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).