bisbille
\bis.bij\
The verdict
“bisbille” is uncommon French (frequency #96,677 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,677
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Murmure, petite querelle, dissension sur des futilités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bisbille · bisbille · French
bisbille · rank #96,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,677
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biosynthèse
Nearest frequency peer: biosynthèse (-2 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 « bisbille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bienfaisant…
bienfaisantes
3,329 corpus weight
- bini
bini
3,327 corpus weight
- biosynthèse
biosynthèse
3,326 corpus weight
- bisbille
bisbille
3,324 corpus weight
- bist
bist
3,322 corpus weight
- blasphémato…
blasphématoires
3,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bisbille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bisbille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bis.bij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bisbille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bisbille is uncommon French at frequency #96,677 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bis.bij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Murmure, petite querelle, dissension sur des futilités.".
bisbille has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bisbille, spelled B-I-S-B-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Murmure, petite querelle, dissension sur des futilités.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bisbille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était toujours en bisbille avec sa femme et la bonne, auxquelles il faisait, d’un ton rogue, des observations ou des reproches injustifiés.
[…] ; il avait probablement lu tout fraîchement la polémique entre Turinaz et Rocafort et croyait sans doute que tout le monde était, comme lui, au courant des histoires qui mettaient en bisbille ces deux individus.
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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