biotope
\bjɔ.tɔp\
The verdict
“biotope” is uncommon French (frequency #50,675 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,675
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aire géographique caractérisée par des conditions climatiques et physicochimiques homogènes permettant l’existence d’une faune et d’une flore spécifiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biotope · biotope · French
biotope · rank #50,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,675
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biology
Nearest frequency peer: biology (-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 « biotope »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bichon
bichon
49,329 corpus weight
- biodégradab…
biodégradables
49,328 corpus weight
- biology
biology
49,327 corpus weight
- biotope
biotope
49,326 corpus weight
- blame
blame
49,325 corpus weight
- blanchissage
blanchissage
49,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biotope » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biotope |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bjɔ.tɔp\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biotope » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biotope is uncommon French at frequency #50,675 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bjɔ.tɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aire géographique caractérisée par des conditions climatiques et physicochimiques homogènes permettant l’existence d’une faune et d’une flore spécifiques.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for biotope in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is biotope, spelled B-I-O-T-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1Aire géographique caractérisée par des conditions climatiques et physicochimiques homogènes permettant l’existence d’une faune et d’une flore spécifiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how biotope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le conflit entre un groupe humain et un milieu défavorable peut se résoudre au bénéfice des membres de ce groupe par la construction d’un « biotope » artificiel en totale rupture avec le milieu.
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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