BMO
The verdict
“BMO” is uncommon French (frequency #63,560 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,560
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En France, brigade de gendarmerie disposant de motos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bmo · BMO · French
BMO · rank #63,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,560
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH BNB
Nearest frequency peer: BNB (+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 « BMO »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Birkenau
Birkenau
36,445 corpus weight
- Blanchett
Blanchett
36,443 corpus weight
- BMO
BMO
36,441 corpus weight
- BNB
BNB
36,440 corpus weight
- bolivienne
bolivienne
36,438 corpus weight
- Bologna
Bologna
36,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BMO » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BMO |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « BMO » en français
Rare enough to double-check
BMO is uncommon French at frequency #63,560 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En France, brigade de gendarmerie disposant de motos.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for BMO, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is BMO, spelled B-M-O.
Definition
- 1En France, brigade de gendarmerie disposant de motos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BMO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gendarmes de la brigade motorisée (BMO) de Périgueux (Dordogne) ont interpellé, mardi, le conducteur d’un Renault Express avec une échelle « chargée d’une manière plutôt originale, mais pas du tout réglementaire ».
Depuis le 1ᵉʳ octobre 2023, Florine Richeux est la nouvelle motocycliste de la brigade motorisée (BMO) de la gendarmerie de Vitré, et la première femme à y exercer cette fonction.
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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