bind
\bɪnt\
The verdict
“bind” is uncommon French (frequency #74,602 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,602
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de binden.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bind · bind · French
bind · rank #74,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,602
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bigots
Nearest frequency peer: bigots (-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 « bind »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Benveniste
Benveniste
25,403 corpus weight
- bifteck
bifteck
25,401 corpus weight
- bigots
bigots
25,400 corpus weight
- bind
bind
25,399 corpus weight
- binks
binks
25,398 corpus weight
- bipèdes
bipèdes
25,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bind » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bind |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɪnt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bind » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bind is uncommon French at frequency #74,602 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɪnt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de binden.".
bind doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 bind, spelled B-I-N-D.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de binden.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).