BPA
\be.pe.a\
The verdict
“BPA” is uncommon French (frequency #51,926 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,926
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de bisphénol A.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bpa · BPA · French
BPA · rank #51,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,926
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH boosters
Nearest frequency peer: boosters (-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 « BPA »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- boche
boche
48,079 corpus weight
- bogue
bogue
48,078 corpus weight
- boosters
boosters
48,076 corpus weight
- BPA
BPA
48,075 corpus weight
- Bq
Bq
48,074 corpus weight
- branchages
branchages
48,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « BPA » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BPA |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.pe.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « BPA » en français
Rare enough to double-check
BPA is uncommon French at frequency #51,926 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.pe.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for BPA, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 BPA, spelled B-P-A.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de bisphénol A.
- 2Abréviation de bonnes pratiques agricoles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BPA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si les agences française et canadienne reconnaissent, depuis peu, les dangers du BPA pour la santé humaine, la très grande majorité des autres continue de minimiser ces risques, en dépit de nombreux signaux d’alerte.
Il recommande d'utiliser des bouteilles en acier inoxydable ou en verre, ou des canettes sans BPA pour réduire le risque de diabète.
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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