biggest
\ˈbɪɡ.ɪst\
The verdict
“biggest” is uncommon French (frequency #72,961 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,961
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Superlatif de big.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biggest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈbɪɡ.ɪst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “biggest” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
biggest is uncommon French at frequency #72,961 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈbɪɡ.ɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Superlatif de big.".
biggest doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is biggest, spelled B-I-G-G-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Superlatif de big.
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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Using “biggest”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-G-G-E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈbɪɡ.ɪst\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.