bizarre
/bəˈzɑɹ/
"bizarre" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bizarre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,872
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bizarre · bizarre · English
bizarre · rank #6,872 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,872
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bernard
Nearest frequency peer: Bernard (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bizarre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- axis
axis
93,132 corpus weight
- badge
badge
93,131 corpus weight
- Bernard
Bernard
93,130 corpus weight
- bizarre
bizarre
93,129 corpus weight
- bounce
bounce
93,128 corpus weight
- broadcasting
broadcasting
93,127 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bizarre” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bizarre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bəˈzɑɹ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bizarre” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bizarre (IPA /bəˈzɑɹ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,872 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bizarre, with forms such as "bbizarre", "biazrre", and "bizare". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bizarro", "bizarrely", "barre", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”). Either from Basque bizar (“a beard”) (the notion being that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French), or from Italian bizzarro. The correct English form is bizarre, spelled B-I-Z-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bizarre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That was a bizarre adventure!
[…]no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death,—that was the sting,—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a rock, on a raft.”
Etymology
Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”). Either from Basque bizar (“a beard”) (the notion being that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French), or from Italian bizzarro.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbizarre
- biazrre
- bizare
- bizarer
- bizrare
- bizzarre
- bziarre
- ibzarre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bizarre - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bizarre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
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- "bizarre" maps to 3 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "bizarro". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,872 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.