bagarre
\ba.ɡaʁ\
The verdict
“bagarre” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,070. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,070
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rencontre fortuite d'équipages, embarras de voitures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bagarre · bagarre · French
bagarre · rank #8,070 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,070
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bataillon
Nearest frequency peer: bataillon (+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 « bagarre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apportent
apportent
91,934 corpus weight
- Aquitaine
Aquitaine
91,933 corpus weight
- bagarre
bagarre
91,931 corpus weight
- bataillon
bataillon
91,930 corpus weight
- Boulogne
Boulogne
91,929 corpus weight
- bouquet
bouquet
91,928 corpus weight
What this shows « bagarre » 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 | bagarre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ɡaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bagarre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bagarre (IPA \ba.ɡaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,070 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bagarre, with forms such as "abgarre", "baagrre", and "bagare". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "barre", "bizarre", "bigorre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 bagarre, spelled B-A-G-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Rencontre fortuite d'équipages, embarras de voitures.
- 2Tumulte, mêlée bruyante et désordonnée.
- 3Querelle, rixe, lutte, opération difficile où se trouve impliqué un nombre limité d'antagonistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bagarre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous étions entrés dans la bagarre de quelques centaines de voitures d’enterremens, qui faisaient ensemble file à la porte étroite du cimetière, et, dans l’impossibilité de me retirer, il me fallut subir quelques heures d’attente au milieu de ce noir entourage.
Les mœurs des compagnonnages furent longtemps fort remarquables par leur brutalité ; avant 1840, il y avait constamment des bagarres, souvent sanglantes, entre groupes de rites différents.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abgarre
- baagrre
- bagare
- bagarer
- baggarre
- bagrare
- bbagarre
- bgaarre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bagarre - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).