Babylone
\ba.bi.lɔn\
The verdict
“Babylone” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,350. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,350
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville antique de Mésopotamie située sur l’Euphrate dans ce qui est aujourd’hui l’Iraq.
Corpus desk
Index FR-babylone · Babylone · French
Babylone · rank #17,350 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,350
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 227,490
- PHOTO-FINISH avisé
Nearest frequency peer: avisé (-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 “Babylone”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- avale
avale
82,654 corpus weight
- aventuriers
aventuriers
82,653 corpus weight
- avisé
avisé
82,652 corpus weight
- Babylone
Babylone
82,651 corpus weight
- Balkans
Balkans
82,650 corpus weight
- bannir
bannir
82,648 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Babylone” 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 | Babylone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.bi.lɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Babylone” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Babylone (IPA \ba.bi.lɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,350 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Babylone, with forms such as "abbylone", "babbylone", and "bablyone". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Babylon", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Babylone, spelled B-A-B-Y-L-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ville antique de Mésopotamie située sur l’Euphrate dans ce qui est aujourd’hui l’Iraq.
- 2Lieu de désordre et de crimes, le monde profane, la société moderne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Babylone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’humanité avait-elle les moyens de prévenir ce désastre de la guerre dans les airs ? Question oiseuse, aussi oiseuse que de demander si elle aurait pu empêcher la décadence qui transforma l’Assyrie et Babylone en des déserts arides.
Pourtant, le Roi des Rois n’est pas heureux. De la tour de son palais, à sept étages, tandis que la nuit tombe, il regarde avec colère la liesse de Babylone, la capitale du monde.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbylone
- babbylone
- bablyone
- babyllone
- babylnoe
- babyloen
- babylonne
- babyolne
- babyylone
- bayblone
- bbabylone
- bbaylone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Babylone - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Babylone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.