Bde
\bʁi.ɡad\
The verdict
“Bde” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,803) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,803
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de brigade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bde · Bde · French
Bde · rank #43,803 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,803
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baz
Nearest frequency peer: baz (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Bde »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- basset
basset
56,201 corpus weight
- battants
battants
56,200 corpus weight
- baz
baz
56,199 corpus weight
- Bde
Bde
56,198 corpus weight
- Beaubourg
Beaubourg
56,197 corpus weight
- biaisée
biaisée
56,196 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Bde » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Bde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁi.ɡad\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Bde »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Bde is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bʁi.ɡad\. Frequency #43,803 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de brigade.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bde, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "bu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Bde, spelled B-D-E.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de brigade.
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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