bavure
\ba.vyʁ\
The verdict
“bavure” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,901
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite trace que les joints des pièces d’un moule laissent sur l’objet moulé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bavure · bavure · French
bavure · rank #25,901 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,901
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beauregard
Nearest frequency peer: Beauregard (+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 « bavure »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bade
bade
74,103 corpus weight
- Bahia
Bahia
74,102 corpus weight
- bavure
bavure
74,100 corpus weight
- Beauregard
Beauregard
74,099 corpus weight
- bestioles
bestioles
74,098 corpus weight
- beuh
beuh
74,097 corpus weight
What this shows « bavure » 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 | bavure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.vyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bavure »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bavure (IPA \ba.vyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,901 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bavure, with forms such as "abvure", "bauvre", and "bavrue". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bure", "bavures", "bravoure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bavure, spelled B-A-V-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Petite trace que les joints des pièces d’un moule laissent sur l’objet moulé.
- 2Trace d’encre s’étalant en dehors d’un dessin ou du motif d’une lettre lors de l’impression ou de l’écriture.
- 3Action erronée aux répercussions graves.
- 4Bavure policière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bavure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enlever les bavures.
Ma plume hésite, puis échappe à ma main noueuse, laissant une bavure d’encre sur le papier de Geairepu. Encore une feuille de ce fin matériau gâchée, dans une entreprise que je soupçonne fort d'être vaine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abvure
- bauvre
- bavrue
- bavuer
- bavurre
- bavvure
- bbavure
- bvaure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bavure - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "bavure", 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).