Beaumarchais
\bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\
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
- 227,490
- “B” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beaumarchais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #32,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Beaumarchais” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Beaumarchais (IPA \bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,703 among 227,490 “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
- 1Écrivain, 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.
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.
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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Using “Beaumarchais”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-A-U-M-A-R-C-H-A-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bo.maʁ.ʃɛ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.