bane
\ban\
The verdict
“bane” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,740) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,740
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hotte pour les vendanges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bane · bane · French
bane · rank #47,740 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,740
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH aérogare
Nearest frequency peer: aérogare (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bane »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- auditionner
auditionner
52,265 corpus weight
- auriol
auriol
52,264 corpus weight
- aérogare
aérogare
52,262 corpus weight
- bane
bane
52,261 corpus weight
- basale
basale
52,259 corpus weight
- batteurs
batteurs
52,257 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bane » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ban\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bane »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bane is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "BN", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ban\. Frequency #47,740 among 4,251 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bane, with forms such as "abne", "banne", and "bbane". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "be", "BN", "bon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bane, spelled B-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hotte pour les vendanges.
- 2Mesure de la capacité d’une telle hotte.
- 3Espace clos pour arrêter le poisson.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abne
- banne
- bbane
- bnae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bane - 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 "bane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).