B1
\be.œ̃\
The verdict
“B1” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,862) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,862
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habilitation électrique qualifiant une personne autorisée à effectuer des travaux d’ordre électrique en basse tension selon la norme NF C 18-510.
Corpus desk
Index FR-b1 · B1 · French
B1 · rank #21,862 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,862
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aération
Nearest frequency peer: aération (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “B1”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- axa
axa
78,142 corpus weight
- Ayrault
Ayrault
78,141 corpus weight
- aération
aération
78,140 corpus weight
- B1
B1
78,139 corpus weight
- balayage
balayage
78,138 corpus weight
- bass
bass
78,136 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “B1” sits against the nearest ranked French 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 | B1 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.œ̃\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #21,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “B1” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for B1 is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \be.œ̃\. Frequency #21,862 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Habilitation électrique qualifiant une personne autorisée à effectuer des travaux d’ordre électrique en basse tension selon la norme NF C 18-510.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for B1, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "BD", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is B1, spelled B-1.
Definition
- 1Habilitation électrique qualifiant une personne autorisée à effectuer des travaux d’ordre électrique en basse tension selon la norme NF C 18-510.
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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