bancal
\bɑ̃.kal\
The verdict
“bancal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,391
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a une jambe ou les jambes tordues, en parlant d'une personne ou d'un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bancal · bancal · French
bancal · rank #35,391 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,391
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barbecues
Nearest frequency peer: barbecues (+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 « bancal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aubergines
aubergines
64,614 corpus weight
- avancera
avancera
64,613 corpus weight
- bancal
bancal
64,610 corpus weight
- barbecues
barbecues
64,609 corpus weight
- Bathurst
Bathurst
64,608 corpus weight
- batista
batista
64,607 corpus weight
What this shows « bancal » 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 | bancal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.kal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bancal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bancal (IPA \bɑ̃.kal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,391 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bancal, with forms such as "abncal", "bacnal", and "banacl". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "bancs", "bocal", "banco", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bancal, spelled B-A-N-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a une jambe ou les jambes tordues, en parlant d'une personne ou d'un animal.
- 2Boiteux, tordu, déséquilibré.
- 3Qui n'est pas d’aplomb, en parlant d'un objet.
- 4Qui manque de clarté, de logique, de rigueur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bancal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était le premier à rire de sa jambe bancale.
Imaginez un horrible petit avorton, si petit que c’en était ridicule ; avec cela disgracieux, sale, mal peigné, mal vêtu, sentant le ruisseau, et, pour que rien ne lui manquât, affreusement bancal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abncal
- bacnal
- banacl
- bancall
- banccal
- bancla
- banncal
- bbancal
- bnacal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bancal - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).