bissextile
\bi.sɛks.til\
The verdict
“bissextile” is uncommon French (frequency #75,445 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,445
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de bissextil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bissextile · bissextile · French
bissextile · rank #75,445 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,445
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bipartisme
Nearest frequency peer: bipartisme (-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 « bissextile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- biomédicales
biomédicales
24,559 corpus weight
- biotopes
biotopes
24,558 corpus weight
- bipartisme
bipartisme
24,557 corpus weight
- bissextile
bissextile
24,556 corpus weight
- Bithynie
Bithynie
24,555 corpus weight
- Bizot
Bizot
24,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bissextile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bissextile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bi.sɛks.til\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bissextile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bissextile is uncommon French at frequency #75,445 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bi.sɛks.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de bissextil.".
bissextile doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bissextile, spelled B-I-S-S-E-X-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de bissextil.
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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