bazooka
\ba.zu.ka\
The verdict
“bazooka” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,683. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,683
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lance-roquettes antichar de courte portée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bazooka · bazooka · French
bazooka · rank #37,683 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,683
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baye
Nearest frequency peer: baye (-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 « bazooka »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bavaroise
bavaroise
62,321 corpus weight
- bavures
bavures
62,320 corpus weight
- baye
baye
62,319 corpus weight
- bazooka
bazooka
62,318 corpus weight
- Beauvau
Beauvau
62,317 corpus weight
- belgo
belgo
62,316 corpus weight
What this shows « bazooka » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bazooka |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.zu.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bazooka »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bazooka (IPA \ba.zu.ka\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,683 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bazooka, with forms such as "abzooka", "baozoka", and "bazoka". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bazooka, spelled B-A-Z-O-O-K-A.
Definition
- 1Lance-roquettes antichar de courte portée.
- 2Sorte d’engin d’effarouchement qui envoie des détonations répétées pour faire fuir les corbeaux, corneilles ou étourneaux.
- 3Moyen extrême.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bazooka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moins de cinq cents combattants. L’armement qui attend leurs compagnons ne comprend que des armes légères. Contre l’artillerie divisionnaire allemande et les automitrailleuses, pas un canon, pas un bazooka.
Ce soudain branle-bas de combat gagna jusqu’à l’intendance. On vit des secrétaires, cuisiniers et autres non-combattants entourer les instructeurs pour s’initier rapidement au maniement du bazooka et du mortier de tranchée, et apprendre l’art de poser une mine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abzooka
- baozoka
- bazoka
- bazokoa
- bazooak
- bazookka
- bazzooka
- bbazooka
- bzaooka
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bazooka - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "bazooka", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).