bavardage

\ba.vaʁ.daʒ\

/\ba.vaʁ.daʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“bavardage” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,270
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de bavarder.

Corpus desk

Index FR-bavardage · bavardage · French

bavardage · rank #36,270 · 13 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #36,270
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH basketteur

Nearest frequency peer: basketteur (-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 « bavardage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « bavardage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

bavardage vs bavardages
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for bavardage
PropertyValue
Headwordbavardage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.vaʁ.daʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#36,270
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bavardage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).bavardagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « basketteur » (#36,269), « belliqueux » (#36,271), « bash » (#36,268). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « bavardage » est au #36,270. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around bavardage (IPA \ba.vaʁ.daʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,270 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 bavardage, with forms such as "abvardage", "baavrdage", and "bavadrage". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "bavardages", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bavardage, spelled B-A-V-A-R-D-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de bavarder.
  2. 2
    Discours insignifiant et prolixe.
  3. 3
    Sons émis par les pies.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bavardage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous éloignons le plus possible de la guerre notre bavardage ; nous parlons de l’Amérique, des îles de la Sonde, où il voudrait aller ; puis nous tenons à en écarter nos corps mêmes.
  2. Et voilà qu’Eugène passait les soirées entières dans le salon jaune, écoutant religieusement ces grotesques que lui, Aristide, avait si impitoyablement raillés. Quand il sut, par les bavardages de la ville, que son frère donnait des poignées de main à Granoux et en recevait du marquis, il se demanda avec anxiété ce qu’il devait croire.

This word in other languages

chatter(English)Geplauder(Deutsch)tagarelice(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abvardage
  • baavrdage
  • bavadrage
  • bavaradge
  • bavardaeg
  • bavardagge
  • bavarddage
  • bavardgae
  • bavarrdage
  • bavradage
  • bavvardage
  • bbavardage
  • bvaardage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bavardage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

abvardage2baavrdage2bavadrage2bavaradge2bavardaeg2bavardagge1bavarddage1bavardgae2
Edit distance from "bavardage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bavardage"?
"bavardage" is spelled B-A-V-A-R-D-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.vaʁ.daʒ\.
What does "bavardage" mean?
As a noun, "bavardage" means: Action de bavarder.
What words are commonly confused with "bavardage"?
"bavardage" is commonly confused with "bavardages". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bavardage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bavardage" is \ba.vaʁ.daʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bavardage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bavardage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

banaliser#36,264authority#36,260augustine#36,259buildings#36,285

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

basketteur13 variantsautorisait13 variantsarrêterait13 variantscannibales13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list