biography
\baɪˈɑɡ.ɹə.fi\
The verdict
“biography” is uncommon French (frequency #92,479 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,479
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Biographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biography · biography · French
biography · rank #92,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,479
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bigote
Nearest frequency peer: bigote (-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 « biography »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bibliothéco…
bibliothéconomie
7,525 corpus weight
- bienfaisants
bienfaisants
7,524 corpus weight
- bigote
bigote
7,523 corpus weight
- biography
biography
7,522 corpus weight
- bisoux
bisoux
7,521 corpus weight
- blaguait
blaguait
7,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biography » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biography |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baɪˈɑɡ.ɹə.fi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biography » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biography is uncommon French at frequency #92,479 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \baɪˈɑɡ.ɹə.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Biographie.".
biography has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is biography, spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Biographie.
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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