Beaumarchais

\bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\

/\bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\/ name

The verdict

“Beaumarchais” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,703. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,703
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
17
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrivain, journaliste, dramaturge, éditeur, horloger, inventeur, musicien, politicien, espion, vendeur d'armes, révolutionnaire (pour la France et pour les États-Unis) et l’une des figures emblémat...

Corpus desk

Index FR-beaumarchais · Beaumarchais · French

Beaumarchais · rank #32,703 · 17 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,703
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH bergen

Nearest frequency peer: bergen (+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 « Beaumarchais »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Beaumarchais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Beaumarchais
PropertyValue
HeadwordBeaumarchais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#32,703
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Beaumarchais »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Beaumarchaisse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bergen » (#32,704), « bari » (#32,701), « bambous » (#32,700). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « Beaumarchais » est au #32,703. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around Beaumarchais (IPA \bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,703 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Écrivain, journaliste, dramaturge, éditeur, horloger, inventeur, musicien, politicien, espion, vendeur d'armes, révolutionnaire (pour la France et pour les États-Unis) et l’une des figures emblémat...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Beaumarchais, with forms such as "baeumarchais", "bbeaumarchais", and "beamuarchais". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Beaumarchais, spelled B-E-A-U-M-A-R-C-H-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Écrivain, journaliste, dramaturge, éditeur, horloger, inventeur, musicien, politicien, espion, vendeur d'armes, révolutionnaire (pour la France et pour les États-Unis) et l’une des figures emblématiques du Siècle des Lumières.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Beaumarchais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le Mariage de Figaro De Beaumarchais et mis en scène par Philippe Person et Florence Le Corre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • baeumarchais
  • bbeaumarchais
  • beamuarchais
  • beauamrchais
  • beaumacrhais
  • beaumarcahis
  • beaumarcchais
  • beaumarchaiss
  • beaumarchasi
  • beaumarchhais
  • beaumarchias
  • beaumarhcais
  • beaumarrchais
  • beaummarchais
  • beaumrachais
  • beuamarchais
  • ebaumarchais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Beaumarchais - 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.

baeumarchais2bbeaumarchais1beamuarchais2beauamrchais2beaumacrhais2beaumarcahis2beaumarcchais1beaumarchaiss1
Edit distance from "Beaumarchais"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Beaumarchais"?
"Beaumarchais" is spelled B-E-A-U-M-A-R-C-H-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\.
What does "Beaumarchais" mean?
As a proper noun, "Beaumarchais" means: Écrivain, journaliste, dramaturge, éditeur, horloger, inventeur, musicien, politicien, espion, vendeur d'armes, révolutionnaire (pour la France et pour les États-Unis) et l’une des figures emblémat...
What are common misspellings of "Beaumarchais"?
Common misspellings include "baeumarchais", "bbeaumarchais", "beamuarchais", "beauamrchais", "beaumacrhais". The correct spelling is "Beaumarchais".
How do you pronounce "Beaumarchais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Beaumarchais" is \bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Beaumarchais" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Beaumarchais", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list