bigarré
\bi.ɡa.ʁe\
The verdict
“bigarré” is uncommon French (frequency #78,182 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,182
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un ensemble d’éléments disparates et tranchants qui manque d’harmonie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bigarre · bigarré · French
bigarré · rank #78,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,182
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bigger
Nearest frequency peer: bigger (+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 « bigarré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Benidorm
Benidorm
21,823 corpus weight
- beti
beti
21,822 corpus weight
- bigarré
bigarré
21,819 corpus weight
- bigger
bigger
21,818 corpus weight
- bigre
bigre
21,817 corpus weight
- biométhane
biométhane
21,816 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bigarré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bigarré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.ɡa.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bigarré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bigarré is uncommon French at frequency #78,182 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.ɡa.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bigarré in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bigarré, spelled B-I-G-A-R-R-É.
Definition
- 1Se dit d’un ensemble d’éléments disparates et tranchants qui manque d’harmonie.
- 2Qualifie des grès composés de grains de diverses couleurs et d'un ciment d'une autre couleur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bigarré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], le Pape-Dieu rencontra une troupe folâtre de femmes et de jeunes filles, parées d’étoffes voyantes et bigarrées.
Ils paraient des chevaux à longue queue avec des houppes bigarrées.
Synonyms
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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