biosphère
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,829
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
biosphère is aFrenchnoun. It means: Atome globuleux que l’on supposait être la base de tous les corps vivants. Pronounced \bjɔ.sfɛʁ\. Often confused with Bosphore.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biosphère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɔ.sfɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for biosphère is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bjɔ.sfɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,829 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for biosphère, with forms such as "bbiosphère", "biopshère", and "bioshpère". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Bosphore", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is biosphère, spelled B-I-O-S-P-H-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Atome globuleux que l’on supposait être la base de tous les corps vivants.
- 2Ensemble des êtres vivants (organismes, populations, communautés) qui habitent la surface de la Terre et les milieux où ils vivent, ainsi que les interactions entre ces êtres vivants et leur environnement.
- 3Couche de la Terre où la vie est possible, comprenant l’ensemble des milieux terrestres, aquatiques et atmosphériques peu profonds où les organismes vivants peuvent exister et interagir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbiosphère,biopshère,bioshpère,biosphere,biosphhère,biosphrèe,biosphèer,biosphèrre,biospphère,biospèhre,biossphère,bisophère,boisphère,ibosphère
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for biosphère
Misspelling Variants of "biosphère"
Frequency rank: #35,829 in French
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Nearby French words
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