Beaune
\bon\
The verdict
“Beaune” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,944. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,944
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beaune · Beaune · French
Beaune · rank #18,944 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,944
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH banquette
Nearest frequency peer: banquette (-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 « Beaune »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- balades
balades
81,060 corpus weight
- balais
balais
81,059 corpus weight
- banquette
banquette
81,058 corpus weight
- Beaune
Beaune
81,057 corpus weight
- beni
beni
81,056 corpus weight
- Benz
Benz
81,055 corpus weight
What this shows « Beaune » 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 | Beaune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bon\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Beaune »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Beaune (IPA \bon\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,944 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Beaune, with forms such as "baeune", "bbeaune", and "beanue". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bene", "beaux", "brune", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Beaune, spelled B-E-A-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
- 2Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie intégrée dans la commune de Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne.
- 3Vin de Bourgogne, appartenant au vignoble de la côte de Beaune.
- 4Canton français, situé dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Beaune appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
16 novembre 42 – En l’honneur de la première bonne nouvelle de la guerre, papa a sorti deux bouteilles de Beaune de sa cave secrète.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baeune
- bbeaune
- beanue
- beauen
- beaunne
- beuane
- ebaune
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Beaune - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).