bambous
\bɑ̃.bu\
The verdict
“bambous” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,700
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bambou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bambous · bambous · French
bambous · rank #32,700 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,700
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balls
Nearest frequency peer: balls (-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 « bambous »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- badass
badass
67,304 corpus weight
- bahut
bahut
67,303 corpus weight
- balls
balls
67,302 corpus weight
- bambous
bambous
67,301 corpus weight
- bari
bari
67,300 corpus weight
- Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais
67,298 corpus weight
What this shows « bambous » 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 | bambous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.bu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bambous »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bambous (IPA \bɑ̃.bu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,700 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bambou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bambous, with forms such as "abmbous", "babmous", and "bambbous". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "barbus", "bambou", "bambins", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bambous, spelled B-A-M-B-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bambou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bambous 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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmbous
- babmous
- bambbous
- bambosu
- bambouss
- bambuos
- bammbous
- bamobus
- bbambous
- bmabous
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bambous - 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 "bambous", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).