baule
The verdict
“baule” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,244. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,244
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baule · baule · French
baule · rank #29,244 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,244
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barton
Nearest frequency peer: Barton (-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 « baule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Balladur
Balladur
70,760 corpus weight
- bandage
bandage
70,759 corpus weight
- Barton
Barton
70,758 corpus weight
- baule
baule
70,757 corpus weight
- Baxter
Baxter
70,756 corpus weight
- Beauchamp
Beauchamp
70,755 corpus weight
What this shows « baule » 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 | baule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around baule, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,244 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Danse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for baule, with forms such as "abule", "balue", and "bauel". 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, "blé", "bue", "blue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is baule, spelled B-A-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Danse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’esgardoit les geus et les baules.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abule
- balue
- bauel
- baulle
- bbaule
- buale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baule - 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
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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).