bille
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,664
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bille is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tronc d’arbre brut, simplement débarrassé de ses branches pour être envoyé à la scierie. Pronounced \bij\. Often confused with blé and bite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bij\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bille is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bij\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,664 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for bille, with forms such as "bbille", "bilel", and "blile". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blé", "bite", "blue", and more, 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 bille, spelled B-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tronc d’arbre brut, simplement débarrassé de ses branches pour être envoyé à la scierie.
- 2Traverse de chemin de fer.
- 3Pièce de bois de 5m 40 destinée à être coupée en deux pour faire deux traverses.
- 4Rejeton qui pousse au pied d'un arbre.
- 5Bâton dont les mégissiers se servent pour tordre les peaux, et les teinturiers pour tordre les tissus.
- 6Bâton dont les emballeurs se servaient autrefois pour tendre les cordes des colis.
- 7Rouleau à pâtisserie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbille,bilel,blile,iblle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bille
Misspelling Variants of "bille"
Frequency rank: #18,664 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our French index: