beignet
\bɛ.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“beignet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,662
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâte frite à la poêle et qui enveloppe ordinairement une tranche de quelque fruit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beignet · beignet · French
beignet · rank #39,662 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,662
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bayle
Nearest frequency peer: bayle (-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 « beignet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bardo
bardo
60,342 corpus weight
- Bartoli
Bartoli
60,341 corpus weight
- bayle
bayle
60,340 corpus weight
- beignet
beignet
60,339 corpus weight
- Bellecour
Bellecour
60,338 corpus weight
- belo
belo
60,337 corpus weight
What this shows « beignet » 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 | beignet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « beignet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around beignet (IPA \bɛ.ɲɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,662 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pâte frite à la poêle et qui enveloppe ordinairement une tranche de quelque fruit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for beignet, with forms such as "bbeignet", "beginet", and "beigent". 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. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "binet", "bénigne", "beignets", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is beignet, spelled B-E-I-G-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Pâte frite à la poêle et qui enveloppe ordinairement une tranche de quelque fruit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beignet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand les beignets sont bien montés et de belle couleur, retirez-les pour les égoutter et saupoudrez-les de sucre fin.
La prochaine fois, on pourra aussi essayer les tempuras, ce sont des beignets.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbeignet
- beginet
- beigent
- beiggnet
- beignett
- beignnet
- beignte
- beinget
- biegnet
- ebignet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beignet - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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