billet de banque
\bi.jɛ də bɑ̃k\
The verdict
“billet de banque” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Morceau de papier imprimé émis par une banque et représentant de l’argent liquide sous forme de monnaie fiduciaire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billet de banque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jɛ də bɑ̃k\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “billet de banque” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for billet de banque is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.jɛ də bɑ̃k\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Morceau de papier imprimé émis par une banque et représentant de l’argent liquide sous forme de monnaie fiduciaire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for billet de banque, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is billet de banque, spelled B-I-L-L-E-T- -D-E- -B-A-N-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Morceau de papier imprimé émis par une banque et représentant de l’argent liquide sous forme de monnaie fiduciaire.
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Using “billet de banque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-L-L-E-T- -D-E- -B-A-N-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bi.jɛ də bɑ̃k\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.