BD
\be.de\
The verdict
“BD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,106) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,106
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bande dessinée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bd · BD · French
BD · rank #5,106 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,106
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH avancé
Nearest frequency peer: avancé (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “BD”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- appart
appart
94,898 corpus weight
- arsenal
arsenal
94,897 corpus weight
- avancé
avancé
94,896 corpus weight
- BD
BD
94,895 corpus weight
- bouteilles
bouteilles
94,894 corpus weight
- brown
brown
94,893 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “BD” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | BD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.de\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “BD” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BD is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \be.de\. Frequency #5,106 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bande dessinée.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for BD, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "bu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is BD, spelled B-D.
Definition
- 1Bande dessinée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les aventures de Tintin sont une BD.
Les jeunes sont de gros consommateurs de BD.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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