bisphénol
\bis.fe.nɔl\
The verdict
“bisphénol” is uncommon French (frequency #60,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,589
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé chimique portant deux groupes phénol, généralement liés par un pont méthyle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bisphenol · bisphénol · French
bisphénol · rank #60,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,589
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Biscaye
Nearest frequency peer: Biscaye (-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 « bisphénol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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bikinis
39,416 corpus weight
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Binoche
39,415 corpus weight
- Biscaye
Biscaye
39,413 corpus weight
- bisphénol
bisphénol
39,412 corpus weight
- blaugrana
blaugrana
39,411 corpus weight
- blossom
blossom
39,410 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bisphénol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bisphénol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bis.fe.nɔl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bisphénol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bisphénol is uncommon French at frequency #60,589 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bis.fe.nɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composé chimique portant deux groupes phénol, généralement liés par un pont méthyle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bisphénol in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bisphénol, spelled B-I-S-P-H-É-N-O-L.
Definition
- 1Composé chimique portant deux groupes phénol, généralement liés par un pont méthyle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bisphénol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les substances toxiques telles que les phtalates et les bisphénols qui diffusent à partir des emballages plastiques surtout s’ils ont été soumis à la chaleur.
La préparation du polycarbonate est faite par polycondensation, principalement à partir d’un bisphénol sur un phosgène avec dégagement d’acide chlorhydrique.
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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