bayle
\bɛl\
The verdict
“bayle” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,661. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,661
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bayle · bayle · French
bayle · rank #39,661 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,661
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bartoli
Nearest frequency peer: Bartoli (-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 « bayle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bambins
bambins
60,343 corpus weight
- bardo
bardo
60,342 corpus weight
- Bartoli
Bartoli
60,341 corpus weight
- bayle
bayle
60,340 corpus weight
- beignet
beignet
60,339 corpus weight
- Bellecour
Bellecour
60,338 corpus weight
What this shows « bayle » 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 | bayle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bayle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bayle (IPA \bɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,661 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bayle, with forms such as "abyle", "balye", and "bayel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blé", "bye", "bile", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bayle, spelled B-A-Y-L-E.
Definition
- 1Berger.
- 2Maire.
- 3Responsable de la vente à la criée.
- 4Chef de culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bayle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les troupeaux transhumants appartiennent tantôt à de riches propriétaires ou capitalistes, tantôt à de petits cultivateurs de Provence, qui les confient à un bayle ou berger chef qui, à ses risques et périls, conduit les troupeaux, loue les pâturages, etc., en un mot se charge de l’estivage moyennant une redevance.
Le lendemain, mardi 19, le nouveau bayle vint annoncer qu’il avait enfin la fameuse bassine saisie au vicomte Maffre. Il reçut l’ordre de l’apporter, et l’huissier alla à la porte de Bruniquel pour l’y recevoir […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abyle
- balye
- bayel
- baylle
- bayyle
- bbayle
- byale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bayle - 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 "bayle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).