bâtiment
\bɑ.ti.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“bâtiment” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,729. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,729
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Construction close faite pour loger des hommes ou des animaux, ou pour abriter des denrées, des récoltes, pour servir à des industries, à des services publics, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batiment · bâtiment · French
bâtiment · rank #1,729 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,729
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bordeaux
Nearest frequency peer: bordeaux (-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 « bâtiment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- utile
utile
98,275 corpus weight
- Achat
Achat
98,274 corpus weight
- bordeaux
bordeaux
98,273 corpus weight
- bâtiment
bâtiment
98,272 corpus weight
- cerveau
cerveau
98,271 corpus weight
- civile
civile
98,270 corpus weight
What this shows « bâtiment » 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 | bâtiment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ.ti.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bâtiment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around bâtiment (IPA \bɑ.ti.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,729 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for bâtiment, with forms such as "batiment", "bbâtiment", and "btâiment". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "battent", "bêtement", "bâtiments", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bâtiment, spelled B-Â-T-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Construction close faite pour loger des hommes ou des animaux, ou pour abriter des denrées, des récoltes, pour servir à des industries, à des services publics, etc.
- 2Activité économique liée à la construction des logements.
- 3Navire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bâtiment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dirigeable ne s’éloignait pas des alentours du bâtiment de Park Row, où s’était assemblée la municipalité […]
Les bâtiments de cette entreprise sont tous neufs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- batiment
- bbâtiment
- btâiment
- bâitment
- bâtiemnt
- bâtimennt
- bâtimentt
- bâtimetn
- bâtimment
- bâtimnet
- bâtmient
- bâttiment
- âbtiment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bâtiment - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bâtiment", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).