binette
\bi.nɛt\
The verdict
“binette” is uncommon French (frequency #66,539 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,539
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil dont on se sert pour biner, pour travailler une terre de façon superficielle pour l’aérer ou pour détruire les mauvaises herbes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-binette · binette · French
binette · rank #66,539 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,539
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bidules
Nearest frequency peer: bidules (-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 « binette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bex
Bex
33,465 corpus weight
- bicoque
bicoque
33,464 corpus weight
- bidules
bidules
33,463 corpus weight
- binette
binette
33,462 corpus weight
- bisexuelles
bisexuelles
33,461 corpus weight
- BNS
BNS
33,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « binette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | binette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « binette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
binette is uncommon French at frequency #66,539 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Outil dont on se sert pour biner, pour travailler une terre de façon superficielle pour l’aérer ou pour détruire les mauvaises herbes.".
binette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is binette, spelled B-I-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Outil dont on se sert pour biner, pour travailler une terre de façon superficielle pour l’aérer ou pour détruire les mauvaises herbes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how binette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les binages s’exécutent à l’aide de la binette, sorte de houe légère dont le fer, large de 15cm à 20cm, fait un angle aigu avec la douille, dans laquelle se fixe un manche droit.
Les coups de binette énergiques sont rares; mais ils se produisent cependant de loin en loin, quand, par exemple, le maître ou le surveillant surgissent au détour d’une allée, […].
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).