BMS
\be ɛ.m‿ɛs\
The verdict
“BMS” is uncommon French (frequency #57,790 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,790
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation, dans le langage des historiens et des généalogistes, pour qualifier les registres paroissiaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bms · BMS · French
BMS · rank #57,790 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,790
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blogger
Nearest frequency peer: blogger (-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 « BMS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanchette
blanchette
42,214 corpus weight
- blob
blob
42,213 corpus weight
- blogger
blogger
42,212 corpus weight
- BMS
BMS
42,211 corpus weight
- bohémienne
bohémienne
42,210 corpus weight
- brandis
brandis
42,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BMS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BMS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be ɛ.m‿ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « BMS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
BMS is uncommon French at frequency #57,790 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be ɛ.m‿ɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation, dans le langage des historiens et des généalogistes, pour qualifier les registres paroissiaux.".
No misspelling variants are generated for BMS in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 BMS, spelled B-M-S.
Definition
- 1Abréviation, dans le langage des historiens et des généalogistes, pour qualifier les registres paroissiaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BMS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour, une date… et le généalogiste doit aborder les registres paroissiaux, les fameux registres de catholicité appelés « BMS ». — (Aborder les registres paroissiaux. sur www.yvongenealogie.fr, 24 mars 2013)
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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