bique
\bik\
The verdict
“bique” is uncommon French (frequency #81,809 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,809
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chèvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bique · bique · French
bique · rank #81,809 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,809
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bibelot
Nearest frequency peer: bibelot (-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 « bique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biaiser
biaiser
18,194 corpus weight
- bibelot
bibelot
18,193 corpus weight
- bique
bique
18,192 corpus weight
- blister
blister
18,191 corpus weight
- Blume
Blume
18,189 corpus weight
- Blumenthal
Blumenthal
18,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bik\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bique is uncommon French at frequency #81,809 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
bique has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bique, spelled B-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Chèvre.
- 2Vieille femme acariâtre.
- 3Cheval chétif.
- 4(Ouest de la France) Chevalet de sciage (par analogie avec les quatre pattes de l’animal)
- 5L'un des noms vernaculaires de la crevette grise (nom scientifique: Crangon crangon).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bique allant remplir sa traînante mamelle.
Elle était belle encore parmi les peaux de bique des cosaques et les uniformes anglais, se poussant dans la foule des hommes et faisant luire sa poitrine sur la marche des maisons de jeu.
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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