baie

\bɛ\

/\bɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“baie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,209) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#4,209
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit charnu, indéhiscent contenant une ou plusieurs graines.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baie · baie · French

baie · rank #4,209 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,209
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH attentats

Nearest frequency peer: attentats (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « baie »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « baie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

baie vs be
50% similar
baie vs bi
50% similar
baie vs bas
50% similar

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

Key facts for baie
PropertyValue
Headwordbaie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bɛ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#4,209
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « baie »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).baiese 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 « attentats » (#4,208), « bains » (#4,210), « attendez » (#4,207). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baie » est au #4,209. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for baie is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "bi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bɛ\. Frequency #4,209 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for baie, with forms such as "abie", "baei", and "bbaie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "be", "bi", "bas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is baie, spelled B-A-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fruit charnu, indéhiscent contenant une ou plusieurs graines.
  2. 2
    Petits fruits des arbrisseaux, généralement sauvages, qui bordent les chemins de campagne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le rihan (Myrtus communis) produit des baies comestibles ; ses feuilles servent en médecine et dans les cérémonies religieuses juives.
  2. La baie peut contenir plusieurs graines (groseille, raisin) ou une seule (datte) ; le « noyau » de la datte n'est, en fait, que la graine, extrêmement dure.

Synonyms

petit fruit

This word in other languages

berry(English)baya(Español)Beere(Deutsch)baga(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abie
  • baei
  • bbaie
  • biae

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

abie2baei2bbaie1biae2
Edit distance from "baie"

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 "baie"?
"baie" is spelled B-A-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \bɛ\.
What does "baie" mean?
As a noun, "baie" means: Fruit charnu, indéhiscent contenant une ou plusieurs graines.
What words are commonly confused with "baie"?
"baie" is commonly confused with "be", "bi", "bas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "baie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baie" is \bɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baie" come from?
"baie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

time#4,194Hugo#4,242Irak#4,244park#4,173

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list