bâillon
\bɑ.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“bâillon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,208. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,208
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Morceau de bois, de fer, etc., qu’on met de force entre les mâchoires d’une personne pour l’empêcher de parler et de crier, ou dans la gueule d’un animal pour l’empêcher de mordre ou de faire du br...
Corpus desk
Index FR-baillon · bâillon · French
bâillon · rank #42,208 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,208
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Burnett
Nearest frequency peer: Burnett (-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 « bâillon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bum
bum
57,796 corpus weight
- Burka
Burka
57,795 corpus weight
- Burnett
Burnett
57,794 corpus weight
- bâillon
bâillon
57,793 corpus weight
- Bègles
Bègles
57,792 corpus weight
- cadrans
cadrans
57,791 corpus weight
What this shows « bâillon » 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 | bâillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #42,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bâillon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bâillon (IPA \bɑ.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,208 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bâillon, with forms such as "baillon", "bbâillon", and "biâllon". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ballon", "balcon", "Bailly", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bâillon, spelled B-Â-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Morceau de bois, de fer, etc., qu’on met de force entre les mâchoires d’une personne pour l’empêcher de parler et de crier, ou dans la gueule d’un animal pour l’empêcher de mordre ou de faire du bruit.
- 2Censure, intimidation pour faire taire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bâillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ses joues gardent la trace d’un bâillon de gros Scotch qui l’a empêchée de hurler.
Il s'était vu saisi par des domestiques, garrotté, conduit dans une cave avec un bâillon dans la bouche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baillon
- bbâillon
- biâllon
- bâillno
- bâillonn
- bâiloln
- bâilon
- bâlilon
- âbillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bâillon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "bâillon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).