Bayonne
\ba.jɔn\
The verdict
“Bayonne” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,180
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française située dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bayonne · Bayonne · French
Bayonne · rank #11,180 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,180
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bijou
Nearest frequency peer: bijou (+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 « Bayonne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- auditeurs
auditeurs
88,825 corpus weight
- auxiliaire
auxiliaire
88,824 corpus weight
- bacon
bacon
88,823 corpus weight
- Bayonne
Bayonne
88,821 corpus weight
- bijou
bijou
88,820 corpus weight
- blocus
blocus
88,819 corpus weight
What this shows « Bayonne » 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 | Bayonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ba.jɔn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Bayonne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Bayonne (IPA \ba.jɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,180 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française située dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bayonne, with forms such as "abyonne", "baoynne", and "baynone". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bonne", "Beyoncé", "baronne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Bayonne, spelled B-A-Y-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française située dans le département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bayonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En stage à Saint-Lary-Soulan depuis lundi soir, l’Union Bordeaux-Bègles terminera sa quatrième semaine de préparation par un premier match amical à Bayonne ce samedi (20 heures).
Ses complices sont arrêtés, parmi lesquels le député-maire de Bayonne ainsi que quelques directeurs de journaux. Le 9 janvier, la police déclare avoir retrouvé le corps de Stavisky qui, affirme-t-elle, venait de se suicider.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abyonne
- baoynne
- baynone
- bayone
- bayonen
- bayyonne
- bbayonne
- byaonne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bayonne - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).