Bamako
\ba.ma.ko\
The verdict
“Bamako” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,073. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,073
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et capitale du Mali.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bamako · Bamako · French
Bamako · rank #16,073 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,073
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bagues
Nearest frequency peer: bagues (-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 « Bamako »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Auchan
Auchan
83,931 corpus weight
- auditoire
auditoire
83,930 corpus weight
- bagues
bagues
83,929 corpus weight
- Bamako
Bamako
83,928 corpus weight
- been
been
83,927 corpus weight
- berline
berline
83,926 corpus weight
What this shows « Bamako » 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 | Bamako |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.ma.ko\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bamako »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Bamako (IPA \ba.ma.ko\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,073 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bamako, with forms such as "abmako", "baamko", and "bamakko". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "barak", "baraka", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Bamako, spelled B-A-M-A-K-O.
Definition
- 1Ville et capitale du Mali.
- 2Gouvernement malien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bamako appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] oui, je pars à Bamako toute la semaine et pour ne pas trop m’ennuyer dans ma piaule, je viens chercher un bouquin distrayant, qu’est-ce que tu aurais à me conseiller ?
Originaire de Tombouctou (nord), Halima Cissé avait été prise en charge à Bamako, puis transférée le 30 mars au Maroc pour un meilleur suivi de cette grossesse qui «sort de l’ordinaire», selon le ministère de la Santé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmako
- baamko
- bamakko
- bamaok
- bamkao
- bammako
- bbamako
- bmaako
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bamako - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bamako", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).