biscotte
\bis.kɔt\
The verdict
“biscotte” is uncommon French (frequency #64,966 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,966
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranche de pain de mie séchée au four.
Corpus desk
Index FR-biscotte · biscotte · French
biscotte · rank #64,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,966
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bips
Nearest frequency peer: bips (-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 « biscotte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bienfaisante
bienfaisante
35,038 corpus weight
- bips
bips
35,036 corpus weight
- biscotte
biscotte
35,035 corpus weight
- biscottes
biscottes
35,034 corpus weight
- bitter
bitter
35,033 corpus weight
- Blandin
Blandin
35,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biscotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biscotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bis.kɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « biscotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
biscotte is uncommon French at frequency #64,966 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bis.kɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tranche de pain de mie séchée au four.".
biscotte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is biscotte, spelled B-I-S-C-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Tranche de pain de mie séchée au four.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biscotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], et cependant j'entends sa chère tante de Douay qui avait cinq bonnes mille liv. de rentes , lui disant : Merlinet , si tu sais bien ton musa , mon ami , je te donnerai une biscotte , un macaron, un massepain , un biscuit, ou Quelqu'autre Chose Semblable qui flattera ton goût.
Il est important de mêler la biscotte ou la croûte de pain au suc de carottes afin de réunir toutes les matières alimentaires les plus indispensables à l'enfant, l'albumine, la farine d'amidon, le gluten, le sucre, les sels, etc.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).