bâtir
\ba.tiʁ\
The verdict
“bâtir” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,157
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agencer, disposer les pièces d’un vêtement en les faufilant, en les assemblant avec de grands points d’aiguille avant de les coudre tout à fait.
Corpus desk
Index FR-batir · bâtir · French
bâtir · rank #7,157 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,157
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bénéficient
Nearest frequency peer: bénéficient (+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 « bâtir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- boxe
boxe
92,847 corpus weight
- brune
brune
92,846 corpus weight
- bâtir
bâtir
92,844 corpus weight
- bénéficient
bénéficient
92,843 corpus weight
- bénévoles
bénévoles
92,842 corpus weight
- cahiers
cahiers
92,841 corpus weight
What this shows « bâtir » 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 | bâtir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bâtir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bâtir (IPA \ba.tiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,157 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bâtir, with forms such as "batir", "bbâtir", and "btâir". 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, "bir", "bats", "battu", 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bâtir, spelled B-Â-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Agencer, disposer les pièces d’un vêtement en les faufilant, en les assemblant avec de grands points d’aiguille avant de les coudre tout à fait.
- 2Façonner (le feutre destiné à la confection des chapeaux).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bâtir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette robe n’est pas cousue, elle n’est que bâtie.
Elle a la prétention de se bâtir elle-même une toilette en soie… Ce sera du joli !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- batir
- bbâtir
- btâir
- bâitr
- bâtirr
- bâtri
- bâttir
- âbtir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bâtir - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "bâtir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).