banquet
\bɑ̃.kɛ\
The verdict
“banquet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,610. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,610
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Festin, repas d’apparat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-banquet · banquet · French
banquet · rank #14,610 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,610
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH badge
Nearest frequency peer: badge (-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 « banquet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- autrichienne
autrichienne
85,393 corpus weight
- badge
badge
85,392 corpus weight
- banquet
banquet
85,391 corpus weight
- bastion
bastion
85,390 corpus weight
- bazar
bazar
85,389 corpus weight
- berges
berges
85,388 corpus weight
What this shows « banquet » 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 | banquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « banquet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around banquet (IPA \bɑ̃.kɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,610 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Festin, repas d’apparat.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for banquet, with forms such as "abnquet", "bannquet", and "banqeut". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "basque", "barque", "baquet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is banquet, spelled B-A-N-Q-U-E-T.
Definition
- 1Festin, repas d’apparat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how banquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marc, au banquet, avait aperçu à la table d'honneur Caribe, sa femme et Le Garrec, faufilés en cette agape comme dans tous les autres spectacles gratis.
Avec six autres membres, en effet, Bosch paie sa quote-part pour assister au banquet traditionnel de la Confrérie de Notre-Dame organisé en l'honneur de frères nouvellement assermentés […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnquet
- bannquet
- banqeut
- banqquet
- banquett
- banqute
- banuqet
- baqnuet
- bbanquet
- bnaquet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banquet - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).