biplan
\bi.plɑ̃\
The verdict
“biplan” is uncommon French (frequency #86,468 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,468
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avion pourvu de deux paires d'ailes, l'une au-dessus de l'autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biplan · biplan · French
biplan · rank #86,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,468
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blancos
Nearest frequency peer: blancos (+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 « biplan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bergoglio
Bergoglio
13,537 corpus weight
- bilboquet
bilboquet
13,535 corpus weight
- biplan
biplan
13,533 corpus weight
- blancos
blancos
13,532 corpus weight
- blaugranas
blaugranas
13,531 corpus weight
- blâmez
blâmez
13,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biplan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biplan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.plɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biplan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biplan is uncommon French at frequency #86,468 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.plɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avion pourvu de deux paires d'ailes, l'une au-dessus de l'autre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for biplan, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is biplan, spelled B-I-P-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Avion pourvu de deux paires d'ailes, l'une au-dessus de l'autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biplan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un groupe de biplans allemands, dans le but de dominer les cataractes et les usines, essayait de se maintenir au zénith en une phalange serrée que les Jaunes s’acharnaient à vouloir disperser.
Nous avons fait comme un saut de mouton, puis j'ai arraché, avec le plus d'énergie peut-être qu'auparavant, le « manche à balai ». A cet instant notre biplan se trouva dans une position beaucoup plus normale, et fila d'un trait.
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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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