biface
\bi.fas\
The verdict
“biface” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possédant deux faces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biface · biface · French
biface · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biface |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.fas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biface » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biface is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.fas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Possédant deux faces.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for biface, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is biface, spelled B-I-F-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Possédant deux faces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how biface appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… Autres exemples, antérieurs à l'ère numérique, de marchés bifaces, reposant sur deux marchés reliés mais distincts : les agences immobilières, qui mettent en relation acheteurs et vendeurs d'appartements, et les journaux, qui font de même avec lecteurs et annonceurs.— (Pierre-Antoine Delhommais -Amazon-Hidalgo, match nul- Journal Le Point, page 12, nᵒ 2…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.