bus
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,508
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Véhicule de transport en commun routier pouvant transporter plusieurs dizaines de passagers. Pronounced \bys\. It ranks #1,508 in French word frequency. Often confused with by and BV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bys\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bus is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bys\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,508 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BV", "BX", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bus, spelled B-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Véhicule de transport en commun routier pouvant transporter plusieurs dizaines de passagers.
- 2Ensemble de lignes de transmission sur lesquelles plus de deux équipements sont reliés en parallèle. Par extension on parle aussi de bus pour certaines liaisons se comportant comme tel (exemple liaison USB)
- 3Dispositif non bouclé reliant plusieurs composants, sous-ensembles ou matériels pour permettre entre eux l’apport d’énergie et la circulation d’informations.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #1,508 in French
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