BMI
\bi ɛm aɪ\
The verdict
“BMI” is uncommon French (frequency #91,453 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,453
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de body-mass-index (IMC, indice de masse corporelle).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bmi · BMI · French
BMI · rank #91,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,453
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blount
Nearest frequency peer: blount (-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 « BMI »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bisannuelle
bisannuelle
8,551 corpus weight
- blanchissag…
blanchissages
8,550 corpus weight
- blount
blount
8,549 corpus weight
- BMI
BMI
8,548 corpus weight
- bobcats
bobcats
8,547 corpus weight
- boda
boda
8,546 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BMI » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BMI |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi ɛm aɪ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #91,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « BMI » en français
Rare enough to double-check
BMI is uncommon French at frequency #91,453 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bi ɛm aɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de body-mass-index (IMC, indice de masse corporelle).".
BMI doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is BMI, spelled B-M-I.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de body-mass-index (IMC, indice de masse corporelle).
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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