baronne
\ba.ʁɔn\
The verdict
“baronne” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,055. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,055
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Épouse ou veuve d’un baron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baronne · baronne · French
baronne · rank #20,055 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,055
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barnes
Nearest frequency peer: barnes (-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 « baronne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- assurera
assurera
79,949 corpus weight
- barils
barils
79,948 corpus weight
- barnes
barnes
79,947 corpus weight
- baronne
baronne
79,946 corpus weight
- barrette
barrette
79,945 corpus weight
- bear
bear
79,944 corpus weight
What this shows « baronne » 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 | baronne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ʁɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baronne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around baronne (IPA \ba.ʁɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,055 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for baronne, with forms such as "abronne", "baornne", and "barnone". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "bonne", "bronze", "barons", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is baronne, spelled B-A-R-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Épouse ou veuve d’un baron.
- 2Femme détenant une baronnie.
- 3Femme puissante dans son domaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baronne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sang-diou ! baronne, dites à cette fille que je ferai sa fortune quand je serai roi de France, comme me le prédisent les astrologues.
Elle n’était cependant pas fâchée de devenir baronne et surtout châtelaine, mais elle aimait vraiment Hervé pour lui-même, et elle attendait avec impatience que le jour de son mariage fût fixé, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abronne
- baornne
- barnone
- barone
- baronen
- barronne
- bbaronne
- braonne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baronne - 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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).