bay
\beɪ\
The verdict
“bay” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,151) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,151
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bai, brun-rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bay · bay · French
bay · rank #7,151 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,151
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH autorisée
Nearest frequency peer: autorisée (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bay »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- augustin
augustin
92,853 corpus weight
- autobus
autobus
92,852 corpus weight
- autorisée
autorisée
92,851 corpus weight
- bay
bay
92,850 corpus weight
- beach
beach
92,849 corpus weight
- bouches
bouches
92,848 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bay » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \beɪ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bay »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bay is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \beɪ\. Frequency #7,151 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bai, brun-rouge.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bay, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "BD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bay, spelled B-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Bai, brun-rouge.
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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