Bailly
\baiji\
The verdict
“Bailly” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,638
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bailly · Bailly · French
Bailly · rank #20,638 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,638
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH August
Nearest frequency peer: August (-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 « Bailly »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attestent
attestent
79,366 corpus weight
- audacieuse
audacieuse
79,365 corpus weight
- August
August
79,364 corpus weight
- Bailly
Bailly
79,363 corpus weight
- banderole
banderole
79,362 corpus weight
- bandit
bandit
79,361 corpus weight
What this shows « Bailly » 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 | Bailly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \baiji\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bailly »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Bailly (IPA \baiji\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,638 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bailly, with forms such as "abilly", "baillyy", and "baily". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "ball", "balle", "Billy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Bailly, spelled B-A-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Oise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abilly
- baillyy
- baily
- bailyl
- balily
- bbailly
- bially
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bailly - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).