bachelor
\baʃ.lɔʁ\
The verdict
“bachelor” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,269. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,269
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diplôme universitaire obtenu trois ans après le baccalauréat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bachelor · bachelor · French
bachelor · rank #26,269 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,269
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Autun
Nearest frequency peer: Autun (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bachelor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Attali
Attali
73,735 corpus weight
- aurores
aurores
73,734 corpus weight
- Autun
Autun
73,733 corpus weight
- bachelor
bachelor
73,732 corpus weight
- balistique
balistique
73,731 corpus weight
- bergère
bergère
73,729 corpus weight
What this shows « bachelor » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | bachelor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baʃ.lɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bachelor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bachelor (IPA \baʃ.lɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,269 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bachelor, with forms such as "abchelor", "bacchelor", and "bacehlor". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Bachelot", "Bachelet", "bachelier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bachelor, spelled B-A-C-H-E-L-O-R.
Definition
- 1Diplôme universitaire obtenu trois ans après le baccalauréat.
- 2Diplôme sans définition légale ni reconnaissance officielle, délivré notamment par les écoles de commerce.
- 3Diplôme universitaire technologique de niveau bac+3.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bachelor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une appellation d’origine non protégée et non contrôlée, bien que certains bachelors soient présents sur la plateforme d’inscriptions post-bac APB, où les bacheliers choisissent leur orientation. Résultat : l’offre de bachelors s’est considérablement développée ces dernières années au sein des écoles de commerce, et s’est étendue à d’autres secteurs…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abchelor
- bacchelor
- bacehlor
- bachellor
- bachelorr
- bachelro
- bacheolr
- bachhelor
- bachleor
- bahcelor
- bbachelor
- bcahelor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bachelor - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).