bee
\bi\
The verdict
“bee” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,072) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,072
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de bi : travail fait en commun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bee · bee · French
bee · rank #28,072 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,072
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bazin
Nearest frequency peer: bazin (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bee »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- barge
barge
71,932 corpus weight
- battaient
battaient
71,931 corpus weight
- bazin
bazin
71,930 corpus weight
- bee
bee
71,929 corpus weight
- bienfaiteur
bienfaiteur
71,928 corpus weight
- Bisounours
Bisounours
71,927 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bee » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bee »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bee is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \bi\. Frequency #28,072 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de bi : travail fait en commun.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bee in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "bi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 bee, spelled B-E-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de bi : travail fait en commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
faire un bee.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).