banlieue
\bɑ̃.ljø\
The verdict
“banlieue” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,043. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,043
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étendue de pays qui entoure une ville et qui en est souvent une dépendance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banlieue · banlieue · French
banlieue · rank #4,043 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,043
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH be
Nearest frequency peer: be (+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 « banlieue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Arthur
Arthur
95,961 corpus weight
- attendait
attendait
95,960 corpus weight
- banlieue
banlieue
95,958 corpus weight
- be
be
95,957 corpus weight
- blessures
blessures
95,956 corpus weight
- bleue
bleue
95,955 corpus weight
What this shows « banlieue » 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 | banlieue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.ljø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « banlieue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around banlieue (IPA \bɑ̃.ljø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,043 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for banlieue, with forms such as "abnlieue", "balnieue", and "banileue". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bannière", "banlieues", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is banlieue, spelled B-A-N-L-I-E-U-E.
Definition
- 1Étendue de pays qui entoure une ville et qui en est souvent une dépendance.
- 2Espace populaire urbain habité principalement par une population en précarité économique et issue d’une immigration récente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how banlieue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était la vilaine limite où l’on commence, par la laideur de la banlieue, à entrer dans l’activité du tourbillon de Paris.
Dans les environs immédiats de Zurich […], la campagne est devenue la banlieue…, laquelle banlieue, comme toutes celles des grandes villes, n’est qu’une interminable défilade de bâtisses vulgaires, d’usines et de cités ouvrières.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnlieue
- balnieue
- banileue
- banleiue
- banlieeu
- banliuee
- banllieue
- bannlieue
- bbanlieue
- bnalieue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banlieue - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).