biophysique
\bjɔ.fi.zik\
The verdict
“biophysique” is uncommon French (frequency #79,987 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,987
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discipline interdisciplinaire située à l’interface de la physique et de la biologie, qui applique les principes, les théories et les méthodes physiques à l'étude des structures, mécanismes et proce...
Corpus desk
Index FR-biophysique · biophysique · French
biophysique · rank #79,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,987
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bingen
Nearest frequency peer: Bingen (-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 « biophysique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- beys
beys
20,017 corpus weight
- biathlète
biathlète
20,016 corpus weight
- Bingen
Bingen
20,015 corpus weight
- biophysique
biophysique
20,014 corpus weight
- Bixente
Bixente
20,013 corpus weight
- blafard
blafard
20,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biophysique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biophysique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɔ.fi.zik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biophysique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biophysique is uncommon French at frequency #79,987 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bjɔ.fi.zik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Discipline interdisciplinaire située à l’interface de la physique et de la biologie, qui applique les principes, les théories et les méthodes physiques à l'étude des structures, mécanismes et proce...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for biophysique, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is biophysique, spelled B-I-O-P-H-Y-S-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Discipline interdisciplinaire située à l’interface de la physique et de la biologie, qui applique les principes, les théories et les méthodes physiques à l'étude des structures, mécanismes et processus biologiques, du niveau moléculaire au niveau des organismes vivants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biophysique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un biophysicien étudie la biophysique.
Les risques seraient grands, en effet, de placer Diderot au cœur de la biophysique, de la thermodynamique, de faire de lui le précurseur de nouveaux paradigmes.
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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