Bathurst
The verdict
“Bathurst” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,393
- frequency rank, French
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville d’Afrique du Sud dans la province du Cap-oriental.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bathurst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bathurst” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Bathurst, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,393 among 227,490 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bathurst, with forms such as "abthurst", "bahturst", and "bathhurst". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Bathurst, spelled B-A-T-H-U-R-S-T.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Afrique du Sud dans la province du Cap-oriental.
- 2Ville d’Australie dans l’État de Nouvelle-Galles du Sud.
- 3Ville du Canada dans la province du Nouveau-Brunswick.
- 4Île de l’archipel arctique canadien au Nunavut.
- 5Ville du Canada dans la province d’Ontario.
- 6Ancien nom de Banjul, capitale de la Gambie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abthurst
- bahturst
- bathhurst
- bathrust
- bathurrst
- bathursst
- bathurstt
- bathurts
- bathusrt
- batthurst
- batuhrst
- bbathurst
- btahurst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bathurst - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Bathurst”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-A-T-H-U-R-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.