bipède
\bi.pɛd\
The verdict
“bipède” is uncommon French (frequency #64,277 among 227,490 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,277
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui a deux pattes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bipede · bipède · French
bipède · rank #64,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,277
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 227,490
- PHOTO-FINISH bienfaitrice
Nearest frequency peer: bienfaitrice (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bipède”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- beurrer
beurrer
35,727 corpus weight
- Bibeau
Bibeau
35,726 corpus weight
- bienfaitrice
bienfaitrice
35,725 corpus weight
- bipède
bipède
35,724 corpus weight
- bizness
bizness
35,723 corpus weight
- blasphèmes
blasphèmes
35,722 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bipède” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bipède |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.pɛd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bipède” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bipède is uncommon French at frequency #64,277 among 227,490 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.pɛd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a deux pattes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bipède, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bipède, spelled B-I-P-È-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a deux pattes.
Antonyms
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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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.