bombyx
\bɔ̃.biks\
The verdict
“bombyx” is uncommon French (frequency #89,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,463
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom scientifique d’un genre de lépidoptères nocturnes dont l’espèce-type est le papillon du ver à soie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bombyx · bombyx · French
bombyx · rank #89,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,463
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bombasse
Nearest frequency peer: bombasse (-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 « bombyx »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blafarde
blafarde
10,541 corpus weight
- boirais
boirais
10,540 corpus weight
- bombasse
bombasse
10,539 corpus weight
- bombyx
bombyx
10,538 corpus weight
- bonito
bonito
10,535 corpus weight
- Bonnel
Bonnel
10,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bombyx » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombyx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɔ̃.biks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bombyx » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bombyx is uncommon French at frequency #89,463 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɔ̃.biks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bombyx doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bombyx, spelled B-O-M-B-Y-X.
Definition
- 1Nom scientifique d’un genre de lépidoptères nocturnes dont l’espèce-type est le papillon du ver à soie.
- 2Long chalumeau de roseau ^([2]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bombyx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi le brun se retrouve avec tous ses éléments colorants, du rouge le plus vif au noir de velours, dans les taupins, les altises, les pyrochres, les coccinelles, et dans les papillons, les sphinx, les bombyx, les noctuelles, les sésies ; le gris végétal dans les couleurs jaunes, vertes, bleues, métalliques et brillantes des capricornes, des pucerons, de…
Dans cette catégorie, nous n'aurons qu'à étudier la soie filée par le bombyx du mûrier.
This word in other languages
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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