besogne
\bə.zɔɲ\
The verdict
“besogne” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,852
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travail qu’exige de chacun sa profession, action par laquelle on fait une œuvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-besogne · besogne · French
besogne · rank #28,852 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,852
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Beijing
Nearest frequency peer: Beijing (-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 « besogne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- battante
battante
71,151 corpus weight
- Beijing
Beijing
71,150 corpus weight
- besogne
besogne
71,149 corpus weight
- bigot
bigot
71,148 corpus weight
- biologistes
biologistes
71,147 corpus weight
- Bissau
Bissau
71,146 corpus weight
What this shows « besogne » 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 | besogne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bə.zɔɲ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « besogne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around besogne (IPA \bə.zɔɲ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,852 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for besogne, with forms such as "bbesogne", "beosgne", and "besgone". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "besoin", "besoins", "Bologne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 besogne, spelled B-E-S-O-G-N-E.
Definition
- 1Travail qu’exige de chacun sa profession, action par laquelle on fait une œuvre.
- 2Effet du travail, l’ouvrage même qui résulte du travail.
- 3Acte sexuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how besogne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’esprit infatigable soutient le corps surmené ; il le relève, défaillant. Loin d’être accablé, écrasé par les besognes du présent, aux courtes heures du repos, il conçoit avec une lucidité merveilleuse les besognes de l’avenir.
C’était, en effet, une longue besogne que d’organiser une telle expédition à travers les régions polaires !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbesogne
- beosgne
- besgone
- besogen
- besoggne
- besognne
- besonge
- bessogne
- bseogne
- ebsogne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of besogne - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).