# Biloxi

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #45,230

## Definitions
1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.

## Common misspellings (8)
`bbiloxi`, `billoxi`, `biloix`, `biloxxi`, `bilxoi`, `biolxi`, `blioxi`, `ibloxi`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/biloxi