biseau

\bi.zo\

/\bi.zo\/ noun

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The verdict

“biseau” is uncommon French (frequency #55,090 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,090
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extrémité ou bord coupé en biais, en talus.

Corpus desk

Index FR-biseau · biseau · French

biseau · rank #55,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,090
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH biomédicale

Nearest frequency peer: biomédicale (-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 « biseau »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « biseau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for biseau
PropertyValue
Headwordbiseau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bi.zo\
Letters6
Frequency rank#55,090
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « biseau » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.biseautombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « biomédicale » (#55,089), « Biskra » (#55,091), « binômes » (#55,088). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « biseau » est au #55,090. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

biseau is uncommon French at frequency #55,090 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for biseau, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is biseau, spelled B-I-S-E-A-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Extrémité ou bord coupé en biais, en talus.
  2. 2
    Chose en biais.
  3. 3
    Principales faces qui environnent la table d’un brillant.
  4. 4
    Taille qui permet d’enchâsser dans le cercle d’ouverture le verre d’une montre ou d’une pendule.
  5. 5
    Bec de l’embouchure de certains instruments, tels que la clarinette, le flageolet, la plupart des flûtes, et aussi de la partie terminale d’un tuyau d’orgue.
  6. 6
    Morceaux de bois entourant les pages de caractères, et dont un côté est taillé obliquement pour recevoir les coins qui servent à serrer la forme.
  7. 7
    Ces outils eux-mêmes.
  8. 8
    Période entre deux postes où les deux activités se cumulent partiellement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how biseau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’est entre les biseaux et les barres du châssis que se mettent encore d'autres pièces de bois beaucoup plus courtes, taillées aussi en biseau, nommées les coins, qu’il chasse à coups de marteau, à l'aide d’un cognoir ou décognoir, qui est un véritable coin de bois.
  2. Ces remarques, faîtes au sujet des biseaux d’affutage doubles, tels que ceux des haches, s'appliquent également, aux outils tranchants avec un seul biseau, comme les ciseaux à bois.

This word in other languages

bevel(English)bisel(Español)bisel(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "biseau"?
"biseau" is spelled B-I-S-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \bi.zo\.
What does "biseau" mean?
As a noun, "biseau" means: Extrémité ou bord coupé en biais, en talus.
How do you pronounce "biseau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "biseau" is \bi.zo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "biseau" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "biseau", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Biskra#55,091Bogdan#55,094borner#55,098Bouaké#55,099

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list