bavarder
\ba.vaʁ.de\
The verdict
“bavarder” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,825
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parler sans mesure et sans discrétion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bavarder · bavarder · French
bavarder · rank #35,825 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,825
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH battage
Nearest frequency peer: battage (-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 « bavarder »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Batna
Batna
64,178 corpus weight
- battage
battage
64,177 corpus weight
- bavarder
bavarder
64,176 corpus weight
- BEP
BEP
64,175 corpus weight
- bette
bette
64,174 corpus weight
- biopsie
biopsie
64,173 corpus weight
What this shows « bavarder » 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 | bavarder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ba.vaʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bavarder »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bavarder (IPA \ba.vaʁ.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,825 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bavarder, with forms such as "abvarder", "baavrder", and "bavadrer". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bavards", "bavard", "balader", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bavarder, spelled B-A-V-A-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Parler sans mesure et sans discrétion.
- 2Parler de choses qu’on devrait tenir secrètes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bavarder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux couples riaient, bavardaient, cueillaient des fleurs, se cajolaient et se mignotaient, luttaient et se roulaient sur l’herbe, et les jeunes filles fumèrent des cigarettes.
Pendant ce temps nous bavardions avec les Norvégiens, et même dans ce coin perdu du monde, les potins marchaient grand train.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abvarder
- baavrder
- bavadrer
- bavardder
- bavarderr
- bavardre
- bavaredr
- bavarrder
- bavrader
- bavvarder
- bbavarder
- bvaarder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bavarder - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "bavarder", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).