BDSM
\be.de.ɛs.ɛm\
The verdict
“BDSM” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,458. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,458
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de pratiques sexuelles ou non faisant intervenir le bondage, les punitions, le sadisme et le masochisme, ou encore la domination et la soumission.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bdsm · BDSM · French
BDSM · rank #28,458 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,458
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Barrett
Nearest frequency peer: Barrett (-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 « BDSM »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- baissant
baissant
71,546 corpus weight
- Barrett
Barrett
71,544 corpus weight
- BDSM
BDSM
71,543 corpus weight
- bean
bean
71,542 corpus weight
- Benedict
Benedict
71,541 corpus weight
- betteraves
betteraves
71,540 corpus weight
What this shows « BDSM » 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 | BDSM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.de.ɛs.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « BDSM »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around BDSM (IPA \be.de.ɛs.ɛm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,458 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble de pratiques sexuelles ou non faisant intervenir le bondage, les punitions, le sadisme et le masochisme, ou encore la domination et la soumission.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for BDSM, with forms such as "bbdsm", "bddsm", and "bdms". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BM", "BS", "bus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is BDSM, spelled B-D-S-M.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de pratiques sexuelles ou non faisant intervenir le bondage, les punitions, le sadisme et le masochisme, ou encore la domination et la soumission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BDSM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieu du ciel, encore un débutant, gémit pour elle-même la Domina Démoni, qui en réalité s’appelait Macarena. Les débutants étaient imprévisibles, […]. C’était mieux à Hambourg. À Hambourg, le BDSM était bien mieux établi et en plus elle avait déjà sa clientèle.
Le BDSM donne à cette lutte une inflexion intéressante : il traduit la souffrance psychique en certitude d’une douleur physique, mais la transforme, pour ainsi dire, en jeu sexuel, en désir et en plaisir, […]. Le BDSM donne à la douleur une forme, il l’esthétise, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbdsm
- bddsm
- bdms
- bdsmm
- bdssm
- bsdm
- dbsm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of BDSM - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).