bandoulière
\bɑ̃.du.ljɛʁ\
The verdict
“bandoulière” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,135
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pièce de l’ancien équipement militaire, formée d’une large bande de cuir, qui passait de l’épaule gauche sous le bras droit : elle servait aux cavaliers pour y suspendre leur mousqueton à l’aide d’...
Corpus desk
Index FR-bandouliere · bandoulière · French
bandoulière · rank #40,135 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,135
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 227,490
- PHOTO-FINISH bandages
Nearest frequency peer: bandages (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bandoulière”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Bagel
Bagel
59,869 corpus weight
- balaye
balaye
59,868 corpus weight
- bandages
bandages
59,867 corpus weight
- bandoulière
bandoulière
59,866 corpus weight
- bassesse
bassesse
59,865 corpus weight
- Battista
Battista
59,864 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bandoulière” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bandoulière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.du.ljɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #40,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bandoulière” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around bandoulière (IPA \bɑ̃.du.ljɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,135 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for bandoulière, with forms such as "abndoulière", "badnoulière", and "banddoulière". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 bandoulière, spelled B-A-N-D-O-U-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce de l’ancien équipement militaire, formée d’une large bande de cuir, qui passait de l’épaule gauche sous le bras droit : elle servait aux cavaliers pour y suspendre leur mousqueton à l’aide d’un crochet et aux fantassins pour y attacher leur fourniment de poudre et de balles.
- 2Large baudrier de cuir ou d’étoffe.
- 3Sangle servant à porter sur l’épaule des objets divers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bandoulière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Porter en bandoulière.
La bandoulière d’un garde-chasse, d’un suisse d’église.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abndoulière
- badnoulière
- banddoulière
- bandoluière
- bandouilère
- bandouliere
- bandoulirèe
- bandoulièer
- bandoulièrre
- bandoullière
- bandoulèire
- banduolière
- banndoulière
- banodulière
- bbandoulière
- bnadoulière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bandoulière - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bandoulière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.