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biseau

French, noun/bi.zo/

biseau is spelled B-I-S-E-A-U (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Biseau is a French masculine noun meaning “bevel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Extrémité ou bord coupé en biais, en talus”.

What does biseau mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebevel

  2. 2

    masculinebezel

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Extrémité ou bord coupé en biais, en talus. 2. Chose en biais. 3. Principales faces qui environnent la table d’un brillant. 4. Taille qui permet d’enchâsser dans le cercle d’ouverture le verre d’une montre ou d’une pendule.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of biseau

  • biseaux plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce biseau?

  • /bi.zo/
  • \bi.zo\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to biseau

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is biseau in French?

biseau appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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