because
\bi.koz\
The verdict
“because” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,372
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parce que.
Corpus desk
Index FR-because · because · French
because · rank #20,372 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,372
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Baudouin
Nearest frequency peer: Baudouin (-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 « because »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Azerbaïdjan
Azerbaïdjan
79,632 corpus weight
- balises
balises
79,631 corpus weight
- Baudouin
Baudouin
79,630 corpus weight
- because
because
79,629 corpus weight
- beurk
beurk
79,628 corpus weight
- biathlon
biathlon
79,627 corpus weight
What this shows « because » 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 | because |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \bi.koz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « because »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around because (IPA \bi.koz\), aconjunction. Corpus frequency is #20,372 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Parce que.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for because, with forms such as "bbecause", "bceause", and "beacuse". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "berceuse", "beauté", "Beauce", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is because, spelled B-E-C-A-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Parce que.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how because appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne dis pas ça pour toi, à cause de ta tronche, mais because je suis hostile à toute forme de discrimination.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbecause
- bceause
- beacuse
- becasue
- becaues
- becausse
- beccause
- becuase
- ebcause
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of because - 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 "because", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).