bécane
\be.kan\
The verdict
“bécane” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,288
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bicyclette ; vélo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-becane · bécane · French
bécane · rank #36,288 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,288
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bully
Nearest frequency peer: bully (-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 « bécane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- buildings
buildings
63,716 corpus weight
- bulldogs
bulldogs
63,715 corpus weight
- bully
bully
63,714 corpus weight
- bécane
bécane
63,713 corpus weight
- Cambon
Cambon
63,711 corpus weight
- cannibales
cannibales
63,710 corpus weight
What this shows « bécane » 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 | bécane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.kan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bécane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bécane (IPA \be.kan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,288 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bécane, with forms such as "bbécane", "bcéane", and "becane". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "bene", "berne", "benne", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is bécane, spelled B-É-C-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Bicyclette ; vélo.
- 2Mobylette ou moto.
- 3Machine en général (à écrire, à imprimer …), et en particulier ordinateur dans le jargon plus récent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bécane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le cycliste revenait, pédestrement, haletant et fourbu, Grubb […] examinait gravement la machine : — Vous l’avez rudement malmenée, cette bécane, commençait-il, invariablement.
Mon chéri et cher Marcel, j’arrive moins vite que ce cycliste dont je voudrais bien prendre la bécane pour être plus tôt près de vous.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbécane
- bcéane
- becane
- béacne
- bécaen
- bécanne
- béccane
- bécnae
- ébcane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bécane - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bécane", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).