bimensuel
\bi.mɑ̃.sɥɛl\
The verdict
“bimensuel” is uncommon French (frequency #77,288 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,288
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a lieu ou paraît deux fois par mois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bimensuel · bimensuel · French
bimensuel · rank #77,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,288
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bimestriel
Nearest frequency peer: bimestriel (+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 « bimensuel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- BFF
BFF
22,717 corpus weight
- Bidart
Bidart
22,716 corpus weight
- bienêtre
bienêtre
22,715 corpus weight
- bimensuel
bimensuel
22,713 corpus weight
- bimestriel
bimestriel
22,712 corpus weight
- binational
binational
22,711 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bimensuel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bimensuel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.mɑ̃.sɥɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bimensuel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bimensuel is uncommon French at frequency #77,288 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.mɑ̃.sɥɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for bimensuel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bimensuel, spelled B-I-M-E-N-S-U-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a lieu ou paraît deux fois par mois.
- 2Qui a lieu ou paraît tous les deux mois, bimestriel (ce sens est le sens d’origine, celui donné par Littré, et il continue à être utilisé, ce qui peut causer des confusions avec le sens précédent).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bimensuel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans son numéro du 15 janvier 1899, le journal bimensuel parisien le Correspondant médical tirait la sonnette d’alarme en disant : « L’enfant boit ! […] Les nourrices donnent du vin à leurs nourrissons et s’ébaudissent de leur exubérante gaîté. »
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).