bigarreau
\bi.ɡa.ʁo\
The verdict
“bigarreau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit du bigarreautier ; sorte de cerise rouge et blanche qui a la chair plus ferme que les autres cerises (Prunus avium).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bigarreau · bigarreau · French
bigarreau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | bigarreau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ɡa.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bigarreau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ɡa.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bigarreau in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 bigarreau, spelled B-I-G-A-R-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Fruit du bigarreautier ; sorte de cerise rouge et blanche qui a la chair plus ferme que les autres cerises (Prunus avium).
- 2Se disait aussi de l’arbre qui porte ce fruit.
- 3(régionalisme, Lyon) grosse bille, boulard, calot
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bigarreau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
II y a le bigarreau tardif ou de fer, qui mûrit plus tard, & qui n’est pas si sujet aux vers que l’ordinaire : il fait un bel arbre. Le cœuret est une espece de bigarreau plus tendre & fait en cœur, dont le goût est relevé.
Nous nous frayons tant bien que mal un chemin entre des épaules de garçons fruitiers et des chignons de braves demoiselles dont les lèvres sont mûres comme des bigarreaux.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.