bigot
/ˈbɪɡət/
"bigot" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bigot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,902
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bigot · bigot · English
bigot · rank #22,902 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,902
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH BBW
Nearest frequency peer: BBW (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bigot”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Basque
Basque
77,103 corpus weight
- Bavaria
Bavaria
77,102 corpus weight
- BBW
BBW
77,101 corpus weight
- bigot
bigot
77,099 corpus weight
- boa
boa
77,097 corpus weight
- branched
branched
77,096 corpus weight
What this shows “bigot” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bigot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɪɡət/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bigot”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bigot (IPA /ˈbɪɡət/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,902 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bigot, with forms such as "bbigot", "bgiot", and "biggot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bit", "bio", "bot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French bigot (“a sanctimonious person; a religious hypocrite”), from Middle French bigot, from Old French bigot, of disputed origin. It is most often believed to have derived from the identical Old French derogatory term bigot applied to the overly rel… The correct English form is bigot, spelled B-I-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
- 2One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bigot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s government told the Guardian they believed Braverman was a “real racist bigot”.
He is no bigot or hypocrite, he is not torn and divided betwixt reality and appearance, no wretch of a rugged and peevish disposition, but honest, jovial, resolute, and a good fellow.
Etymology
From French bigot (“a sanctimonious person; a religious hypocrite”), from Middle French bigot, from Old French bigot, of disputed origin. It is most often believed to have derived from the identical Old French derogatory term bigot applied to the overly religious Normans, said to be known for frequently swearing Middle English bi God (“by God”) (compare Old English bī god, Middle High German bī got, Middle Dutch bi gode), which is also thought to be the origin of the surname Bigott, Bygott. (Compare the French use of "goddamns" to refer to the English in Joan of Arc's time, and les sommobiches (see son of a bitch) during World War I). From meaning "someone overly religious" it came to mean "someone overly devoted to their own religious opinion", and then to its current sense. The French Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales supports the Germanic origin theory above. Liberman however opines that this has "too strong a taste of a folk etymological guess invented in retrospect" and prefers Grammont et al.'s theory that it derives from Albigot (“inhabitant of Albi”), named after the commune in southern France where Catharism (also known as Albigensianism) is thought to have originated. However, neither the Oxford English Dictionary nor Online Etymology Dictionary list Grammont and Liberman's theory among their possible origins. Compare typologically Russian ханжа́ (xanžá) (< Ottoman Turkish حاجی (hacı, “Kaaba pilgrim”)).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbigot
- bgiot
- biggot
- bigott
- bigto
- biogt
- ibgot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bigot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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