biko
\bikʲʷ\
The verdict
“biko” is uncommon French (frequency #79,092 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,092
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bancal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biko · biko · French
biko · rank #79,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,092
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bicolores
Nearest frequency peer: bicolores (-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 « biko »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BHNS
BHNS
20,912 corpus weight
- bibendum
bibendum
20,911 corpus weight
- bicolores
bicolores
20,910 corpus weight
- biko
biko
20,909 corpus weight
- biodiesel
biodiesel
20,908 corpus weight
- biscayne
biscayne
20,907 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biko » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biko |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bikʲʷ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #79,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biko » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biko is uncommon French at frequency #79,092 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bikʲʷ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bancal.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for biko, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is biko, spelled B-I-K-O.
Definition
- 1Bancal.
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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