Bigeard
\bi.ʒaʁ\
The verdict
“Bigeard” is uncommon French (frequency #88,385 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,385
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bigeard · Bigeard · French
Bigeard · rank #88,385 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,385
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bibine
Nearest frequency peer: bibine (-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 « Bigeard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- berserker
berserker
11,619 corpus weight
- berti
berti
11,618 corpus weight
- bibine
bibine
11,617 corpus weight
- Bigeard
Bigeard
11,616 corpus weight
- bikes
bikes
11,615 corpus weight
- bischoff
bischoff
11,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bigeard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bigeard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bi.ʒaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bigeard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bigeard is uncommon French at frequency #88,385 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bi.ʒaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté en France.".
Bigeard has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Bigeard, spelled B-I-G-E-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bigeard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1920, le Championnat du Canton nord-est d’Angers est créé à l’initiative de Prosper Bigeard, maire en activité de Pellouailles-les-Vignes, dans le Maine-et-Loire.
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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