bivouacs
\bi.vwak\
The verdict
“bivouacs” is uncommon French (frequency #89,458 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,458
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bivouac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bivouacs · bivouacs · French
bivouacs · rank #89,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,458
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH birmanes
Nearest frequency peer: birmanes (-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 « bivouacs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bioniques
bioniques
10,546 corpus weight
- Biraben
Biraben
10,545 corpus weight
- birmanes
birmanes
10,544 corpus weight
- bivouacs
bivouacs
10,543 corpus weight
- blafarde
blafarde
10,541 corpus weight
- boirais
boirais
10,540 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bivouacs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bivouacs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi.vwak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bivouacs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bivouacs is uncommon French at frequency #89,458 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi.vwak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de bivouac.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bivouacs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bivouacs, spelled B-I-V-O-U-A-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bivouac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bivouacs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entreprendre une méharée au Mali, c’est s’immerger complètement dans le monde du désert, des espaces sans fin, des bivouacs étoilés, des feux de camp et des théières fumantes.
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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