banni
\ba.ni\
The verdict
“banni” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,309) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,309
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est renvoyé, interdit de séjour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banni · banni · French
banni · rank #15,309 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,309
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bacs
Nearest frequency peer: bacs (-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 « banni »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- auditions
auditions
84,695 corpus weight
- autochtone
autochtone
84,694 corpus weight
- bacs
bacs
84,693 corpus weight
- banni
banni
84,692 corpus weight
- Barbie
Barbie
84,691 corpus weight
- Beatles
Beatles
84,690 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « banni » 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 | banni |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « banni »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for banni is neighbouring look-alikes ("bâti", "beni", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ba.ni\. Frequency #15,309 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Qui est renvoyé, interdit de séjour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for banni, with forms such as "abnni", "banin", and "bbanni". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bâti", "beni", "Bonn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is banni, spelled B-A-N-N-I.
Definition
- 1Qui est renvoyé, interdit de séjour.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnni
- banin
- bbanni
- bnani
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banni - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).