bans
\bɑ̃\
The verdict
“bans” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,719. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,719
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ban.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bans · bans · French
bans · rank #36,719 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,719
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baléares
Nearest frequency peer: Baléares (-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 « bans »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Badinter
Badinter
63,285 corpus weight
- Bakou
Bakou
63,284 corpus weight
- Baléares
Baléares
63,283 corpus weight
- bans
bans
63,282 corpus weight
- baryton
baryton
63,281 corpus weight
- berlines
berlines
63,280 corpus weight
What this shows « bans » 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 | bans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bans »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bans (IPA \bɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,719 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ban.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bans, with forms such as "abns", "banns", and "banss". 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, "BS", "BN", "bon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bans, spelled B-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ban.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon tes instructions, les bans sont publiés, notre contrat se griffonne, ainsi Notre-Dame-de-Lorette n’a rien à redire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abns
- banns
- banss
- basn
- bbans
- bnas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bans - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bans", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).