Bagel
\ˈbeɪɡəl\
The verdict
“Bagel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,132
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bagel, beguel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bagel · Bagel · French
Bagel · rank #40,132 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,132
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balaye
Nearest frequency peer: balaye (+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 « Bagel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attachants
attachants
59,872 corpus weight
- autogestion
autogestion
59,871 corpus weight
- Bagel
Bagel
59,869 corpus weight
- balaye
balaye
59,868 corpus weight
- bandages
bandages
59,867 corpus weight
- bandoulière
bandoulière
59,866 corpus weight
What this shows « Bagel » 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 | Bagel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbeɪɡəl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bagel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Bagel (IPA \ˈbeɪɡəl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,132 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bagel, beguel.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bagel, with forms such as "abgel", "baegl", and "bagell". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bel", "bal", "Base", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bagel, spelled B-A-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1Bagel, beguel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bagel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Bagel ist ursprünglich ein Nahrungsmittel osteuropäischer Juden, die ihn Anfang des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts mit nach Amerika brachten.“ — Le bagel est originellement un aliment de base des juifs d’Europe de l’Est, qui l’ont introduit en Amérique au début du XXᵉ siècle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abgel
- baegl
- bagell
- baggel
- bagle
- bbagel
- bgael
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bagel - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bagel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).