Bizerte
\bi.zɛʁt\
The verdict
“Bizerte” is uncommon French (frequency #51,918 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,918
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du nord de la Tunisie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bizerte · Bizerte · French
Bizerte · rank #51,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,918
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Binche
Nearest frequency peer: Binche (-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 « Bizerte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- berlinoise
berlinoise
48,087 corpus weight
- bia
bia
48,086 corpus weight
- biliaires
biliaires
48,085 corpus weight
- Binche
Binche
48,084 corpus weight
- Bizerte
Bizerte
48,083 corpus weight
- bjr
bjr
48,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bizerte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bizerte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bi.zɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bizerte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bizerte is uncommon French at frequency #51,918 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \bi.zɛʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du nord de la Tunisie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bizerte, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Bizerte, spelled B-I-Z-E-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ville du nord de la Tunisie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bizerte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 4 avril [1881], 8 000 militaires français débarquent à Bizerte et multiplient les opérations de police aux frontières avec l’Algérie. C'est le retour à l’absolutisme. Bourguiba dira plus tard : « Les Français étaient les nationaux et les Tunisiens les étrangers ».
L'examen des combats menés par les Français, de l'engagement à Bizerte en 1961 à l'opération « Barkhane », donne des résultats comparables.
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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