baveux
\ba.vø\
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
- Bardet
Bardet
57,822 corpus weight
- barriques
barriques
57,821 corpus weight
- bautista
bautista
57,820 corpus weight
- baveux
baveux
57,819 corpus weight
- Benghazi
Benghazi
57,818 corpus weight
- Bergevin
Bergevin
57,817 corpus weight
What this shows « baveux » 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 | baveux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ba.vø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baveux »
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
- 1Qui bave.
- 2Dont certains éléments coulent.
- 3Prétentieux et provocateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how baveux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).