Badoo

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The verdict

“Badoo” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,773. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,773
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’une application destinée à faire des rencontres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-badoo · Badoo · French

Badoo · rank #23,773 · 6 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,773
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH az

Nearest frequency peer: az (-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 « Badoo »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Badoo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Badoo vs boo
40% similar
Badoo vs baron
40% similar
Badoo vs bâton
20% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Badoo
PropertyValue
HeadwordBadoo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#23,773
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Badoo »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Badoose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « az » (#23,772), « Bahreïn » (#23,774), « autodétermination » (#23,771). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Badoo » est au #23,773. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Badoo, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,773 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom d’une application destinée à faire des rencontres.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Badoo, with forms such as "abdoo", "baddoo", and "bado". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "boo", "baron", "bâton", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Badoo, spelled B-A-D-O-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom d’une application destinée à faire des rencontres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Badoo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pourtant, le fondateur russe de Badoo, Andrey Andreev, veut créer à ses côtés une nouvelle application.
  2. Badoo vous permet de régler votre abonnement par carte bancaire, PayPal ou via Google Pay.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abdoo
  • baddoo
  • bado
  • baodo
  • bbadoo
  • bdaoo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Badoo - 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.

abdoo2baddoo1bado1baodo2bbadoo1bdaoo2
Edit distance from "Badoo"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Badoo"?
"Badoo" is spelled B-A-D-O-O.
What does "Badoo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Badoo" means: Nom d’une application destinée à faire des rencontres.
What words are commonly confused with "Badoo"?
"Badoo" is commonly confused with "boo", "baron", "bâton". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Badoo" come from?
"Badoo" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Badoo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

boues#23,785bouée#23,786akbar#23,751child#23,798

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

toby6 variantstibia6 variantsship6 variantsfeng6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list