bavards
\ba.vaʁ\
The verdict
“bavards” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,327. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,327
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de bavard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bavards · bavards · French
bavards · rank #44,327 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,327
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH barèmes
Nearest frequency peer: barèmes (-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 « bavards »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barbeau
barbeau
55,678 corpus weight
- Barnabé
Barnabé
55,677 corpus weight
- Barnier
Barnier
55,676 corpus weight
- barèmes
barèmes
55,675 corpus weight
- bavards
bavards
55,674 corpus weight
- bento
bento
55,673 corpus weight
What this shows « bavards » 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 | bavards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.vaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bavards »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bavards (IPA \ba.vaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,327 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de bavard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bavards, with forms such as "abvards", "baavrds", and "bavadrs". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "bayard", "bavures", "bavarois", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bavards, spelled B-A-V-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de bavard.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abvards
- baavrds
- bavadrs
- bavardds
- bavardss
- bavarrds
- bavarsd
- bavrads
- bavvards
- bbavards
- bvaards
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bavards - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).