bumblebee
\ˈbʌmbl̩bi\
The verdict
“bumblebee” is uncommon French (frequency #80,011 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,011
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourdon (insecte).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bumblebee · bumblebee · French
bumblebee · rank #80,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,011
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Buñuel
Nearest frequency peer: Buñuel (+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 « bumblebee »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bubonique
bubonique
19,993 corpus weight
- buda
buda
19,992 corpus weight
- bumblebee
bumblebee
19,990 corpus weight
- Buñuel
Buñuel
19,989 corpus weight
- Bébert
Bébert
19,987 corpus weight
- béryllium
béryllium
19,986 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bumblebee » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bumblebee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbʌmbl̩bi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bumblebee » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bumblebee is uncommon French at frequency #80,011 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbʌmbl̩bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bourdon (insecte).".
Zero misspellings are on record for bumblebee 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bumblebee, spelled B-U-M-B-L-E-B-E-E.
Definition
- 1Bourdon (insecte).
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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