billards
\bi.jaʁ\
The verdict
“billards” is uncommon French (frequency #80,920 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,920
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de billard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-billards · billards · French
billards · rank #80,920 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,920
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biba
Nearest frequency peer: biba (-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 « billards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bermudas
Bermudas
19,084 corpus weight
- beurrée
beurrée
19,083 corpus weight
- biba
biba
19,082 corpus weight
- billards
billards
19,081 corpus weight
- bloquage
bloquage
19,077 corpus weight
- bluffante
bluffante
19,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « billards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « billards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
billards is uncommon French at frequency #80,920 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.jaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de billard.".
Zero misspellings are on record for billards in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is billards, spelled B-I-L-L-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de billard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how billards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Allons-nous, à notre tour, veules comme ce brave Bob nous soupçonne d'être, « désétoiler » les sandwiches américains, les billards, les coups de poing, les homards et même les quarts d'heure du même nom ?
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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