baille
\baj\
The verdict
“baille” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,665
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Demi-futaille à un seul fond, en forme de baquet, qui sert à divers usages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baille · baille · French
baille · rank #38,665 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,665
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH badauds
Nearest frequency peer: badauds (-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 « baille »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Babylon
Babylon
61,339 corpus weight
- Bachelot
Bachelot
61,338 corpus weight
- badauds
badauds
61,337 corpus weight
- baille
baille
61,336 corpus weight
- balançant
balançant
61,335 corpus weight
- banalités
banalités
61,334 corpus weight
What this shows « baille » 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 | baille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \baj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baille »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around baille (IPA \baj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,665 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for baille, with forms such as "abille", "baile", and "bailel". 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, "ball", "bile", "belle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is baille, spelled B-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Demi-futaille à un seul fond, en forme de baquet, qui sert à divers usages.
- 2Beurrier, baquet à beurre.
- 3Bateau en mauvais état, rafiot.
- 4Mer.
- 5Eau.
- 6Compartiment de rangement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Baille des lignes de sonde, des huniers.
Il trouva dans les débris un ciseau à froid, tombé sans doute de la baille du charpentier, et dont il augmenta sa petite caisse d’outils.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abille
- baile
- bailel
- balile
- bbaille
- bialle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baille - 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.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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