billon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,675
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
billon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de bois de sapin équarrie, billot. Pronounced \bi.jɔ̃\. Often confused with Billy and bison.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | billon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for billon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bi.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,675 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for billon, with forms such as "bbillon", "billno", and "billonn". 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, "Billy", "bison", "Biron", 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 billon, spelled B-I-L-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois de sapin équarrie, billot.
- 2Verge de vigne taillée à la longueur de trois ou quatre doigts.
- 3Ados, petites élévations de terre plus ou moins larges et bombées qu’on forme dans un terrain avec la charrue et qui sont séparés par des sillons profonds, ce qui permet la culture en milieux humides et de tenter de lutter contre l’érosion éolienne.
- 4Nom donné aux monnaies dont la valeur monétaire est supérieure à la valeur des métaux quelle contient.
- 5Monnaie de cuivre pur ou de cuivre mêlé avec un peu d’argent, comme les anciens sous.
- 6Monnaie de cuivre pur ou de cuivre mêlé avec un peu d’argent, comme les anciens sous.
- 7Monnaie de cuivre pur ou de cuivre mêlé avec un peu d’argent, comme les anciens sous.
- 8Sorte de massue comportant une partie renflée, quille.
- 9Jeu d’adresse du Nord-Pas-de-Calais consistant à lancer cette quille de bois.
- 10Petite racine, poudre de garance.
- 11Billon de conduite : Câble utilisé dans les ardoisières.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbillon,billno,billonn,biloln,bilon,blilon,ibllon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for billon
Misspelling Variants of "billon"
Frequency rank: #41,675 in French
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