bailliage
\ba.jaʒ\
The verdict
“bailliage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,776
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tribunal composé de juges qui rendaient la justice au nom du bailli ou avec le bailli.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bailliage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bailliage” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bailliage (IPA \ba.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,776 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bailliage, with forms such as "abilliage", "bailiage", and "baililage". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bailliage, spelled B-A-I-L-L-I-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Tribunal composé de juges qui rendaient la justice au nom du bailli ou avec le bailli.
- 2Étendue de pays qui était sous la juridiction d’un bailli.
- 3Maison dans laquelle le bailli ou son lieutenant rendait la justice.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abilliage
- bailiage
- baililage
- baillaige
- bailliaeg
- bailliagge
- bailligae
- baliliage
- bbailliage
- bialliage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bailliage - 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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Using “bailliage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-L-L-I-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ba.jaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.