bifurquer
\bi.fyʁ.ke\
The verdict
“bifurquer” is uncommon French (frequency #62,813 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,813
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se diviser en deux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bifurquer · bifurquer · French
bifurquer · rank #62,813 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,813
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bid
Nearest frequency peer: bid (-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 « bifurquer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bassa
bassa
37,191 corpus weight
- beigne
beigne
37,190 corpus weight
- bid
bid
37,189 corpus weight
- bifurquer
bifurquer
37,188 corpus weight
- Björk
Björk
37,187 corpus weight
- blotti
blotti
37,186 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bifurquer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bifurquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bi.fyʁ.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bifurquer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bifurquer is uncommon French at frequency #62,813 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bi.fyʁ.ke\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bifurquer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bifurquer, spelled B-I-F-U-R-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Se diviser en deux.
- 2Changer de chemin.
- 3Changer de direction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bifurquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi, quand, après une demi-heure de chemin, ils arrivèrent a un carrefour où la route bifurquait, Gabriel s'arrêta et parut réfléchir.
Comme le chemin se bifurquait cent pas plus loin, nous nous arrêtâmes, ignorant laquelle des deux routes il nous fallait prendre; […].
Synonyms
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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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