bit
\bit\
The verdict
“bit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,817) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,817
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure en informatique désignant la quantité élémentaire d’information représentée par un chiffre binaire, et qui ne peut donc prendre que deux valeurs : 0 ou 1.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bit · bit · French
bit · rank #16,817 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,817
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blacks
Nearest frequency peer: blacks (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bit »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bailleur
bailleur
83,187 corpus weight
- barons
barons
83,186 corpus weight
- bit
bit
83,184 corpus weight
- blacks
blacks
83,183 corpus weight
- blondes
blondes
83,182 corpus weight
- boulots
boulots
83,181 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bit » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bit\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bit »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bit is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bit\. Frequency #16,817 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bit, spelled B-I-T.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure en informatique désignant la quantité élémentaire d’information représentée par un chiffre binaire, et qui ne peut donc prendre que deux valeurs : 0 ou 1.
- 2Par extension "bits quantiques".
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
le nibble = 4 bits et l’octet = 8 bits.
Les processeurs 64-bits sont à la mode.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).