bis
\bi\
The verdict
“bis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,530) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,530
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’un gris beige foncé #766F64 ou clair #F1E2BE.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bis · bis · French
bis · rank #7,530 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,530
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BBC
Nearest frequency peer: BBC (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bis »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- attraper
attraper
92,474 corpus weight
- audition
audition
92,473 corpus weight
- BBC
BBC
92,472 corpus weight
- bis
bis
92,471 corpus weight
- bloque
bloque
92,470 corpus weight
- brillante
brillante
92,469 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bis » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bis »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bis is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \bi\. Frequency #7,530 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bis, spelled B-I-S.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’un gris beige foncé #766F64 ou clair #F1E2BE.
- 2Qui contient un peu de son, en parlant d’un pain ; semi-complet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des pelotons de fil bis dormaient au fond d’un dévidoir invalide.
Sous les pommiers, des femmes courbées ramassent les pommes et remplissent les paniers d’osier et les sacs de toile bise.
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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