businessmen
\biz.nɛs.mɛn\
The verdict
“businessmen” is uncommon French (frequency #91,477 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,477
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de businessman.
Corpus desk
Index FR-businessmen · businessmen · French
businessmen · rank #91,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,477
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bussi
Nearest frequency peer: bussi (+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 « businessmen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brûlerait
brûlerait
8,527 corpus weight
- buono
buono
8,526 corpus weight
- businessmen
businessmen
8,524 corpus weight
- bussi
bussi
8,523 corpus weight
- Bénouville
Bénouville
8,521 corpus weight
- bétonnière
bétonnière
8,520 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « businessmen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | businessmen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \biz.nɛs.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #91,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « businessmen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
businessmen is uncommon French at frequency #91,477 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \biz.nɛs.mɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de businessman.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for businessmen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is businessmen, spelled B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de businessman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how businessmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fabio Robert avait toujours cru que les businessmen et autres politiciens, abonnés aux vols long-courriers et aux hôtels de luxe à travers le Monde, connaissaient des vies harassantes, trépidantes, mettant à mal leur santé à grands coups de jet lag, flirtant dangereusement avec l’infarctus du myocarde et le burn-out… Mais en fait, il n’en était rien. Au c…
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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