bil
\ˈbiːl\
The verdict
“bil” is uncommon French (frequency #65,738 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,738
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de pil par adoucissement (p → b).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bil · bil · French
bil · rank #65,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,738
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH beuveries
Nearest frequency peer: beuveries (-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 « bil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bensoussan
Bensoussan
34,266 corpus weight
- Betclic
Betclic
34,265 corpus weight
- beuveries
beuveries
34,264 corpus weight
- bil
bil
34,263 corpus weight
- blasphémato…
blasphématoire
34,262 corpus weight
- Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg
34,261 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbiːl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bil is uncommon French at frequency #65,738 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈbiːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de pil par adoucissement (p → b).".
No misspelling variants are generated for bil in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bil, spelled B-I-L.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de pil par adoucissement (p → b).
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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