bimestriel
\bi.mɛs.tʁi.jɛl\
The verdict
“bimestriel” is uncommon French (frequency #77,289 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,289
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a lieu tous les deux mois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bimestriel · bimestriel · French
bimestriel · rank #77,289 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,289
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bimensuel
Nearest frequency peer: bimensuel (-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 « bimestriel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- biomédecine
biomédecine
22,709 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bimestriel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bimestriel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.mɛs.tʁi.jɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bimestriel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bimestriel is uncommon French at frequency #77,289 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.mɛs.tʁi.jɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a lieu tous les deux mois.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bimestriel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bimestriel, spelled B-I-M-E-S-T-R-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a lieu tous les deux mois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bimestriel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Publication bimestrielle.
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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