bambou
\bɑ̃.bu\
The verdict
“bambou” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,659
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poacée (ex Graminée) originaire d’Asie et d’Amérique du Sud, dont la tige ligneuse peut s’élever à plus de 20 mètres, utilisée pour sa légèreté, son élasticité et sa résistance à la traction. Ce no...
Corpus desk
Index FR-bambou · bambou · French
bambou · rank #18,659 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,659
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baigne
Nearest frequency peer: baigne (-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 « bambou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- autos
autos
81,345 corpus weight
- avorter
avorter
81,344 corpus weight
- baigne
baigne
81,343 corpus weight
- bambou
bambou
81,342 corpus weight
- basketball
basketball
81,341 corpus weight
- basques
basques
81,340 corpus weight
What this shows « bambou » 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 | bambou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.bu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bambou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bambou (IPA \bɑ̃.bu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,659 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 bambou, with forms such as "abmbou", "babmou", and "bambbou". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "barbu", "bimbo", "bayou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bambou, spelled B-A-M-B-O-U.
Definition
- 1Poacée (ex Graminée) originaire d’Asie et d’Amérique du Sud, dont la tige ligneuse peut s’élever à plus de 20 mètres, utilisée pour sa légèreté, son élasticité et sa résistance à la traction. Ce nom est donné à de très nombreuses espèces appartenant à une vingtaine de genres.
- 2Canne de bambou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bambou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au soir, les deux Terriens arrivèrent auprès d’un étang environné de palmiers gigantesques, d’ébéniers, d’acajous, de bambous, où voletaient une multitude d’oiseaux de couleur.
Les tiges de bambou sont très robustes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmbou
- babmou
- bambbou
- bambuo
- bammbou
- bamobu
- bbambou
- bmabou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bambou - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bambou", 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).