Bach
\baʃ\
The verdict
“Bach” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,110
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bach · Bach · French
Bach · rank #13,110 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,110
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH atroce
Nearest frequency peer: atroce (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Bach”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- assumé
assumé
86,894 corpus weight
- atlanta
atlanta
86,893 corpus weight
- atroce
atroce
86,892 corpus weight
- Bach
Bach
86,891 corpus weight
- baker
baker
86,890 corpus weight
- basant
basant
86,889 corpus weight
What this shows “Bach” 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 | Bach |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Bach” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Bach (IPA \baʃ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,110 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bach, with forms such as "abch", "bacch", and "bachh". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BC", "BH", "bas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Bach, spelled B-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Lot.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abch
- bacch
- bachh
- bahc
- bbach
- bcah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bach - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bach", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).