bigne
\biɲ\
The verdict
“bigne” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de beigne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bigne · bigne · French
bigne · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | bigne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \biɲ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bigne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bigne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \biɲ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de beigne.".
bigne doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bigne, spelled B-I-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de beigne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bigne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et une foys il se feit une bigne, Bien m'en souvient, à l'estal d'un boucher.
Marcel reparut le lendemain à trois heures, la face verte, les yeux rouges, une bigne au front, le pantalon déchiré, empestant l’eau-de-vie, immonde.
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.