bist
\bɪst\
The verdict
“bist” is uncommon French (frequency #96,679 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,679
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier au présent de l’indicatif de sein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bist · bist · French
bist · rank #96,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,679
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blasphématoir…
Nearest frequency peer: blasphématoires (+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 « bist »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bini
bini
3,327 corpus weight
- biosynthèse
biosynthèse
3,326 corpus weight
- bisbille
bisbille
3,324 corpus weight
- bist
bist
3,322 corpus weight
- blasphémato…
blasphématoires
3,321 corpus weight
- bloche
bloche
3,319 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bist » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɪst\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bist » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bist is uncommon French at frequency #96,679 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \bɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier au présent de l’indicatif de sein.".
bist doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bist, spelled B-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier au présent de l’indicatif de sein.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du bist gestern nicht gekommen.
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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