bambins
\bɑ̃.bɛ̃\
The verdict
“bambins” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,658. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,658
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bambin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bambins · bambins · French
bambins · rank #39,658 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,658
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balnéaires
Nearest frequency peer: balnéaires (-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 « bambins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Bachir
Bachir
60,346 corpus weight
- balnéaires
balnéaires
60,344 corpus weight
- bambins
bambins
60,343 corpus weight
- bardo
bardo
60,342 corpus weight
- Bartoli
Bartoli
60,341 corpus weight
- bayle
bayle
60,340 corpus weight
What this shows « bambins » 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 | bambins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.bɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bambins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bambins (IPA \bɑ̃.bɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,658 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bambin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bambins, with forms such as "abmbins", "babmins", and "bambbins". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "bassins", "bambous", "bains", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bambins, spelled B-A-M-B-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bambin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bambins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vous jure que l’artiste a fait celui-là dans un intervalle de bonne santé ; et que, si j’étais jeune, libre, et qu’on me proposât cet honnête Russe pour beau-père, et pour femme cette jeune fille qui tient si modestement un cierge à côté de lui, avec un peu d’aisance, tout autant qu’il en faudrait pour que ma petite Russe pût, quand il lui plairait, do…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmbins
- babmins
- bambbins
- bambinns
- bambinss
- bambisn
- bambnis
- bamibns
- bammbins
- bbambins
- bmabins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bambins - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).