banlieues
\bɑ̃.ljø\
The verdict
“banlieues” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,522
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de banlieue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banlieues · banlieues · French
banlieues · rank #12,522 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,522
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH australienne
Nearest frequency peer: australienne (-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 « banlieues »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arcs
arcs
87,482 corpus weight
- assassins
assassins
87,481 corpus weight
- australienne
australienne
87,480 corpus weight
- banlieues
banlieues
87,479 corpus weight
- barrer
barrer
87,478 corpus weight
- bobo
bobo
87,476 corpus weight
What this shows « banlieues » 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 | banlieues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.ljø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « banlieues »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around banlieues (IPA \bɑ̃.ljø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,522 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de banlieue.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for banlieues, with forms such as "abnlieues", "balnieues", and "banileues". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bannières", "banlieue", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is banlieues, spelled B-A-N-L-I-E-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de banlieue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how banlieues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nouvelle immigration, extrêmement diversifiée sur le plan des origines ethno-nationales, s’installe dans les anciens quartiers ethniques qu’elle contribue ainsi à multi-ethniciser, ou alors gagne de nouvelles banlieues qui sont donc d’emblée multi-ethniques et où règne le conformisme et la neutralité culturelle de l’habitat pavillonnaire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnlieues
- balnieues
- banileues
- banleiues
- banlieeus
- banlieuess
- banlieuse
- banliuees
- banllieues
- bannlieues
- bbanlieues
- bnalieues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banlieues - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).