beige
\bɛʒ\
The verdict
“beige” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,410
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie la laine écrue ou toute étoffe qui n’a reçu ni teinture, ni blanchiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beige · beige · French
beige · rank #18,410 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,410
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH before
Nearest frequency peer: before (-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 « beige »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- basiques
basiques
81,594 corpus weight
- baux
baux
81,593 corpus weight
- before
before
81,592 corpus weight
- beige
beige
81,591 corpus weight
- bergers
bergers
81,590 corpus weight
- bitume
bitume
81,589 corpus weight
What this shows « beige » 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 | beige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « beige »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around beige (IPA \bɛʒ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,410 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for beige, with forms such as "bbeige", "begie", and "beieg". 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, "big", "bie", "bite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is beige, spelled B-E-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie la laine écrue ou toute étoffe qui n’a reçu ni teinture, ni blanchiment.
- 2D’une couleur entre le blanc cassé et le brun très clair. #F5F5DC
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] une bonne robe de droguet ou de laine beige.
Mollement enfoncé dans un fauteuil relaxe de la salle de séjour de son appartement privé, un verre de whisky à portée de la main, Jacques Dubois-Rimbert laissait paresseusement errer son regard sur les toiles de maîtres qui ornaient les murs aux teintes beige rosé de la pièce.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbeige
- begie
- beieg
- beigge
- biege
- ebige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beige - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "beige", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).