bactérie
\bak.te.ʁi\
The verdict
“bactérie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,079
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Micro-organisme unicellulaire et sans noyau compartimenté ni organites.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bacterie · bactérie · French
bactérie · rank #17,079 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,079
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baril
Nearest frequency peer: baril (+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 « bactérie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attributions
attributions
82,925 corpus weight
- avertisseme…
avertissements
82,924 corpus weight
- bactérie
bactérie
82,922 corpus weight
- baril
baril
82,921 corpus weight
- beautiful
beautiful
82,920 corpus weight
- bicyclette
bicyclette
82,919 corpus weight
What this shows « bactérie » 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 | bactérie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bak.te.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bactérie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bactérie (IPA \bak.te.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,079 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bactérie, with forms such as "abctérie", "bacctérie", and "bacterie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "batterie", "batteries", "bactéries", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bactérie, spelled B-A-C-T-É-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Micro-organisme unicellulaire et sans noyau compartimenté ni organites.
- 2Eubactérie, organisme procaryote distinct des archébactéries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bactérie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon les chercheurs, des protéines produites par certaines bactéries intestinales, identifiées dans le sang des personnes atteintes, modifieraient l'interaction entre le système immunitaire et le système nerveux.
A partir d'un échantillon du sol prélevé là où s'écoulaient des ruissellements émanant d'une fabrique de molinate, près d'Estoril, l'équipe a identifié un groupe de bactéries très intéressantes car dégradant totalement le molinate en résidus non toxiques. Parmi ces bactéries, une seule bactérie, Gulosibacter molinativorax, inconnue jusqu'alors, avait un r…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abctérie
- bacctérie
- bacterie
- bactréie
- bacttérie
- bactéire
- bactérei
- bactérrie
- bacétrie
- batcérie
- bbactérie
- bcatérie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bactérie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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).