bateaux
\ba.to\
The verdict
“bateaux” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,127. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,127
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de bateau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bateaux · bateaux · French
bateaux · rank #4,127 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,127
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH basée
Nearest frequency peer: basée (-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 « bateaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- avouer
avouer
95,876 corpus weight
- basée
basée
95,875 corpus weight
- bateaux
bateaux
95,874 corpus weight
- bijoux
bijoux
95,873 corpus weight
- boulevard
boulevard
95,872 corpus weight
- Britanniques
Britanniques
95,871 corpus weight
What this shows « bateaux » 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 | bateaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.to\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bateaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bateaux (IPA \ba.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,127 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de bateau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bateaux, with forms such as "abteaux", "baetaux", and "bataeux". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "beaux", "Bayeux", "baveux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bateaux, spelled B-A-T-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de bateau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abteaux
- baetaux
- bataeux
- bateauxx
- bateaxu
- bateuax
- batteaux
- bbateaux
- btaeaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bateaux - 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 "bateaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).