bind
\bɪnt\
The verdict
“bind” is uncommon French (frequency #74,602 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,602
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de binden.
| 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) |
Where “bind” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bind is uncommon French at frequency #74,602 among 227,490 “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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Using “bind”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-I-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.