bion
\bjɔ̃\
The verdict
“bion” is uncommon French (frequency #77,293 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,293
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil du verrier pour inciser la bosse, qui est le verre soufflé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bion · bion · French
bion · rank #77,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,293
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biomédecine
Nearest frequency peer: biomédecine (-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 « bion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- binational
binational
22,711 corpus weight
- biomédecine
biomédecine
22,709 corpus weight
- bion
bion
22,708 corpus weight
- blanchies
blanchies
22,707 corpus weight
- blattes
blattes
22,706 corpus weight
- blessait
blessait
22,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bion is uncommon French at frequency #77,293 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bion, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bion, spelled B-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Outil du verrier pour inciser la bosse, qui est le verre soufflé.
- 2Rejet de plante vivace.
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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