baveux

\ba.vø\

/\ba.vø\/ adj

The verdict

“baveux” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,182
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui bave.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baveux · baveux · French

baveux · rank #42,182 · 8 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,182
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bautista

Nearest frequency peer: bautista (-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 « baveux »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « baveux » 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).

baveux vs Bayeux
67% similar
baveux vs buveur
67% similar
baveux vs boueux
67% similar

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

Key facts for baveux
PropertyValue
Headwordbaveux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ba.vø\
Letters6
Frequency rank#42,182
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baveux »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bautista » (#42,181), « Benghazi » (#42,183), « barriques » (#42,180). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baveux » est au #42,182. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around baveux (IPA \ba.vø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,182 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for baveux, with forms such as "abveux", "baevux", and "baveuxx". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Bayeux", "buveur", "boueux", and more, 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is baveux, spelled B-A-V-E-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui bave.
  2. 2
    Dont certains éléments coulent.
  3. 3
    Prétentieux et provocateur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sur ce rivage de légende, pour venir écouter le cantique des vagues, à l’ombre des tamaris et des buissons bleus, j’ai traversé l’île fiévreuse où les béliers broutent les touffes rondes des anganes, où les taureaux aux belles cornes, enfoncés jusqu’aux jarrets dans les paluzes, tendent leurs mufles baveux vers les plates solitudes.
  2. Enfant baveux. — Bouche baveuse.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abveux
  • baevux
  • baveuxx
  • bavexu
  • bavuex
  • bavveux
  • bbaveux
  • bvaeux

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baveux - 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.

abveux2baevux2baveuxx1bavexu2bavuex2bavveux1bbaveux1bvaeux2
Edit distance from "baveux"

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 "baveux"?
"baveux" is spelled B-A-V-E-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.vø\.
What does "baveux" mean?
As an adjective, "baveux" means: Qui bave.
What words are commonly confused with "baveux"?
"baveux" is commonly confused with "Bayeux", "buveur", "boueux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "baveux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baveux" is \ba.vø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baveux" come from?
"baveux" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list