Beauvais
\bo.vɛ\
The verdict
“Beauvais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,725
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Oise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beauvais · Beauvais · French
Beauvais · rank #12,725 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,725
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH berry
Nearest frequency peer: berry (+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 « Beauvais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- attendus
attendus
87,279 corpus weight
- axel
axel
87,278 corpus weight
- Beauvais
Beauvais
87,276 corpus weight
- berry
berry
87,275 corpus weight
- blâmer
blâmer
87,274 corpus weight
- boxeur
boxeur
87,272 corpus weight
What this shows « Beauvais » 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 | Beauvais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \bo.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Beauvais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Beauvais (IPA \bo.vɛ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,725 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Oise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Beauvais, with forms such as "baeuvais", "bbeauvais", and "beauavis". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "buvais", "Beauvau", "Beauvoir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Beauvais, spelled B-E-A-U-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Oise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Beauvais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Écoute, il faut qu’on se voie pour en parler. Tu peux passer à la galerie maintenant ? — Non, là, je suis à Beauvais. — À Beauvais ? Mais qu’est-ce que tu fous à Beauvais ? — Je prends un peu de recul. C’est bien, de prendre du recul à Beauvais. »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baeuvais
- bbeauvais
- beauavis
- beauvaiss
- beauvasi
- beauvias
- beauvvais
- beavuais
- beuavais
- ebauvais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Beauvais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Beauvais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).