bignon
\bi.ɲɔ̃\
The verdict
“bignon” is uncommon French (frequency #53,805 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,805
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Filet nommé aussi truble.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bignon · bignon · French
bignon · rank #53,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,805
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bellanger
Nearest frequency peer: Bellanger (-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 « bignon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- baudruche
baudruche
46,199 corpus weight
- Beauval
Beauval
46,198 corpus weight
- Bellanger
Bellanger
46,197 corpus weight
- bignon
bignon
46,196 corpus weight
- birth
birth
46,195 corpus weight
- blanchot
blanchot
46,193 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bignon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bignon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ɲɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bignon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bignon is uncommon French at frequency #53,805 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ɲɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Filet nommé aussi truble.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bignon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bignon, spelled B-I-G-N-O-N.
Definition
- 1Filet nommé aussi truble.
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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