billaud
\bi.jo\
The verdict
“billaud” is uncommon French (frequency #76,363 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,363
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de bois recourbé et en pointe, dont se servent les ciseleurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-billaud · billaud · French
billaud · rank #76,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biochimiste
Nearest frequency peer: biochimiste (+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 « billaud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bergmann
Bergmann
23,641 corpus weight
- bericht
bericht
23,640 corpus weight
- billaud
billaud
23,638 corpus weight
- biochimiste
biochimiste
23,637 corpus weight
- bivalves
bivalves
23,636 corpus weight
- blan
blan
23,635 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « billaud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billaud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « billaud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
billaud is uncommon French at frequency #76,363 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.jo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument de bois recourbé et en pointe, dont se servent les ciseleurs.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for billaud, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is billaud, spelled B-I-L-L-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Instrument de bois recourbé et en pointe, dont se servent les ciseleurs.
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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