bikinis
\bi.ki.ni\
The verdict
“bikinis” is uncommon French (frequency #60,585 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,585
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bikini.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bikinis · bikinis · French
bikinis · rank #60,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,585
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bifurque
Nearest frequency peer: bifurque (-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 « bikinis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- beu
beu
39,420 corpus weight
- bibliograph…
bibliographies
39,419 corpus weight
- bifurque
bifurque
39,417 corpus weight
- bikinis
bikinis
39,416 corpus weight
- Binoche
Binoche
39,415 corpus weight
- Biscaye
Biscaye
39,413 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bikinis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bikinis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.ki.ni\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bikinis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bikinis is uncommon French at frequency #60,585 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.ki.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bikini.".
bikinis has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bikinis, spelled B-I-K-I-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bikini.
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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