billard
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,864
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
billard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu qui se joue avec des boules autrefois d’ivoire, aujourd'hui de matière plastique, qu’on pousse avec des bâtons appelés queues sur une table garnie de rebords ou bandes rembourrées, couverte d’u... Pronounced \bi.jaʁ\. Often confused with boulard and billboard.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for billard is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.jaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,864 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for billard, with forms such as "bbillard", "bilalrd", and "bilard". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "boulard", "billboard", "bigard", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is billard, spelled B-I-L-L-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu qui se joue avec des boules autrefois d’ivoire, aujourd'hui de matière plastique, qu’on pousse avec des bâtons appelés queues sur une table garnie de rebords ou bandes rembourrées, couverte d’un tapis vert.
- 2Table sur laquelle on joue.
- 3Salle où est le billard.
- 4Table où l’on réalise une opération chirurgicale.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbillard,bilalrd,bilard,billadr,billardd,billarrd,billrad,blilard,ibllard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for billard
Misspelling Variants of "billard"
Frequency rank: #14,864 in French
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