begin
\bɪˈgɪn\
The verdict
“begin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,361
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commencer, se mettre à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-begin · begin · French
begin · rank #48,361 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,361
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biberons
Nearest frequency peer: biberons (+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 « begin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- barberousse
barberousse
51,643 corpus weight
- battrai
battrai
51,642 corpus weight
- begin
begin
51,640 corpus weight
- biberons
biberons
51,639 corpus weight
- bihan
bihan
51,638 corpus weight
- birmane
birmane
51,637 corpus weight
What this shows « begin » 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 | begin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɪˈgɪn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « begin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around begin (IPA \bɪˈgɪn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,361 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commencer, se mettre à.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for begin, with forms such as "bbegin", "beggin", and "beginn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ben", "bin", "bei", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 begin, spelled B-E-G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commencer, se mettre à.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how begin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The fun has just begun.
The Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of integers that begin with 0 and 1.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbegin
- beggin
- beginn
- begni
- bgein
- ebgin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of begin - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).