bactéries
\bak.te.ʁi\
The verdict
“bactéries” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,811
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bactérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bacteries · bactéries · French
bactéries · rank #8,811 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,811
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Archipel
Nearest frequency peer: Archipel (-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 « bactéries »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Angel
Angel
91,193 corpus weight
- apprennent
apprennent
91,192 corpus weight
- Archipel
Archipel
91,191 corpus weight
- bactéries
bactéries
91,190 corpus weight
- balancer
balancer
91,189 corpus weight
- berne
berne
91,188 corpus weight
What this shows « bactéries » 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 | bactéries |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bak.te.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bactéries »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around bactéries (IPA \bak.te.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,811 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bactérie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bactéries, with forms such as "abctéries", "bacctéries", and "bacteries". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "batterie", "batteries", "bactérie", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bactéries, spelled B-A-C-T-É-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bactérie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bactéries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mêmes bactéries peuvent désestérifier le diacétate de fluorescéine activement et ainsi libérer la fluorescéine, qui reste préférentiellement dans les bactéries vivantes et les rend ainsi fluorescentes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abctéries
- bacctéries
- bacteries
- bactréies
- bacttéries
- bactéires
- bactéreis
- bactériess
- bactérise
- bactérries
- bacétries
- batcéries
- bbactéries
- bcatéries
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bactéries - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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