bayou
\ba.ju\
The verdict
“bayou” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,670
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étendue d’eau stagnante formée par les anciens bras et méandres du Mississippi en Louisiane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bayou · bayou · French
bayou · rank #38,670 · 6 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,670
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baroques
Nearest frequency peer: baroques (-2 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 « bayou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balançant
balançant
61,335 corpus weight
- banalités
banalités
61,334 corpus weight
- baroques
baroques
61,333 corpus weight
- bayou
bayou
61,331 corpus weight
- beef
beef
61,329 corpus weight
- Bertha
Bertha
61,327 corpus weight
What this shows « bayou » 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 | bayou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.ju\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bayou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bayou (IPA \ba.ju\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,670 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bayou, with forms such as "abyou", "baoyu", and "bayuo". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "bou", "brou", "bijou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bayou, spelled B-A-Y-O-U.
Definition
- 1Étendue d’eau stagnante formée par les anciens bras et méandres du Mississippi en Louisiane.
- 2Grande région marécageuse du sud de la Louisiane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bayou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais Wright ne peut songer non plus à destiner ses livres aux racistes blancs de Virginie ou de Caroline, dont le siège est fait d’avance et qui ne les ouvriront pas. Ni aux paysans noirs des bayous, qui ne savent pas lire.
Des barrages flottants ont été déployés sur près de 50 km pour tenter de limiter l’avancée du pétrole et l’empêcher d’atteindre les côtes de la Louisiane et ses « bayous ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abyou
- baoyu
- bayuo
- bayyou
- bbayou
- byaou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bayou - 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
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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 (6 here; floor ≥5).