beffroi

Name: beffroi, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\be.fʁwa\

/\be.fʁwa\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“beffroi” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,766
frequency rank, French: 4,251
“B” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Édifice mobile en bois qui servait à prendre d’assaut des fortifications.

Corpus desk

Index FR-beffroi · beffroi · French

beffroi · rank #42,766 · 8 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #42,766
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-MID 4,251
PHOTO-FINISH bennes

Nearest frequency peer: bennes (+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.

barquette

57,239
beffroi

57,235
bennes

57,234
bergame

57,233
Blanquer

57,232
bloquez

57,231

What this shows « beffroi » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for beffroi
Property	Value
Headword	beffroi
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\be.fʁwa\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#42,766
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « beffroi »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.beffroise place ici:

#42,766

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « bennes » (#42,767), « bergame » (#42,768), « Blanquer » (#42,769). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « beffroi » est au #42,766. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around beffroi (IPA \be.fʁwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,766 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for beffroi, with forms such as "bbeffroi", "beffori", and "beffrio". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is beffroi, spelled B-E-F-F-R-O-I.

Definition

1
Édifice mobile en bois qui servait à prendre d’assaut des fortifications.
2
Tour ou clocher servant à faire le guet et où se trouvait une cloche pour sonner l’alarme, campanile.
3
Cloche du beffroi.
4
Charpente qui porte les cloches.
5
Charpente qui soutient les meules d’un moulin ; charpente de bois ou de fer qui supporte un train de laminoirs dans les forges et dans les aciéries.
6
Meuble représentant le bâtiment du même nom dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de donjon, phare et tour.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how beffroi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Du côté méridional, l’ennemi, […], pouvait […] faire approcher de la muraille intérieure, sur un plan incliné, un de ces beffrois de charpente, recouverts de peaux fraîches pour les garantir du feu et au moyen desquels on se jetait de plain-pied sur les chemins de ronde supérieurs.
Entendez-vous le canon ? Il vous rappelle celui qui retentissait si péniblement il y a un mois, et qui se mêlait à l’effrayant beffroi de Notre-Dame.

Synonyms

tour de siège hélépole

This word in other languages

belfry(English)Glockenstuhl(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

bbeffroi
beffori
beffrio
beffrroi
befrfoi
befroi
bfefroi
ebffroi

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beffroi - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "beffroi"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "beffroi"?

"beffroi" is spelled B-E-F-F-R-O-I. The IPA pronunciation is \be.fʁwa\.

What does "beffroi" mean?

As a noun, "beffroi" means: Édifice mobile en bois qui servait à prendre d’assaut des fortifications.

What are common misspellings of "beffroi"?

Common misspellings include "bbeffroi", "beffori", "beffrio", "beffrroi", "befrfoi". The correct spelling is "beffroi".

How do you pronounce "beffroi"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "beffroi" is \be.fʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "beffroi" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "beffroi", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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